Mortality in Caribbean, 1970

Caribbean
1970
Life expectancy: 61.4
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1970  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 61.4 years in 1970: 63.3 for women and 59.5 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 251,398 people died; 29.7% of them were 65 or older and 38.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
61.4
Women
63.3
Men
59.5
Life expectancy at 65
13.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
77.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
112.6
Deaths
251,398
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.9
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
251
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
197
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1970's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
075.4189.4963.359.5
1-49.349.9367.164.0
5-91.391.5965.662.5
10-141.091.2061.158.0
15-191.681.9856.453.3
20-242.202.9151.848.8
25-292.513.1947.444.5
30-342.973.5842.940.2
35-393.564.3638.635.9
40-444.425.6434.231.6
45-495.877.9229.927.4
50-548.4511.5725.723.4
55-5912.0616.6021.719.7
60-6418.3925.0617.916.1
65-6929.0137.7914.413.0
70-7446.5357.9411.210.1
75-7974.8788.968.57.7
80-84120.93139.896.35.7
85-89189.16215.114.54.1
90-94287.14322.683.32.9
95-99405.29451.582.42.2
100+528.85585.511.91.7