Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Caribbean

1974

Life expectancy: 62.7

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1974 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 62.7 years in 1974: 64.6 for women and 60.8 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 251,704 people died; 33.4% of them were 65 or older and 33.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1974

Life expectancy at birth

62.7

Women

64.6

Men

60.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

72.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

101.5

Deaths

251,704

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.3

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

244

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

188

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1974's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1974

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.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	69.95	83.00	64.6	60.8
1-4	7.71	8.20	68.2	65.0
5-9	1.29	1.44	66.3	63.1
10-14	1.01	1.10	61.7	58.5
15-19	1.59	1.91	57.0	53.9
20-24	2.09	2.84	52.5	49.3
25-29	2.35	3.10	48.0	45.0
30-34	2.78	3.45	43.5	40.7
35-39	3.41	4.25	39.1	36.3
40-44	4.24	5.48	34.7	32.1
45-49	5.60	7.57	30.4	27.9
50-54	8.10	11.20	26.2	23.9
55-59	11.47	15.96	22.2	20.1
60-64	17.59	24.01	18.3	16.5
65-69	27.48	36.06	14.8	13.3
70-74	44.02	54.86	11.6	10.4
75-79	70.87	84.60	8.8	8.0
80-84	112.96	131.95	6.6	5.9
85-89	177.46	204.91	4.7	4.2
90-94	272.13	310.85	3.4	3.0
95-99	389.04	438.15	2.5	2.2
100+	511.14	560.22	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1974

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