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

Caribbean

1976

Life expectancy: 63.3

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

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-5 -1 1976 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 63.3 years in 1976: 65.2 for women and 61.4 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 252,201 people died; 35.4% of them were 65 or older and 31.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1976

Life expectancy at birth

63.3

Women

65.2

Men

61.4

Life expectancy at 65

14.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

71.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

97.9

Deaths

252,201

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.0

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

239

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

184

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1976's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1976

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	68.59	81.51	65.2	61.4
1-4	7.07	7.54	68.7	65.5
5-9	1.26	1.39	66.7	63.5
10-14	0.98	1.06	62.1	58.9
15-19	1.55	1.86	57.4	54.2
20-24	2.05	2.80	52.8	49.7
25-29	2.31	3.06	48.3	45.4
30-34	2.71	3.38	43.8	41.0
35-39	3.34	4.17	39.4	36.7
40-44	4.17	5.41	35.0	32.4
45-49	5.48	7.37	30.7	28.2
50-54	7.93	10.89	26.5	24.2
55-59	11.17	15.52	22.4	20.4
60-64	17.25	23.36	18.6	16.8
65-69	26.80	34.93	15.0	13.6
70-74	42.65	52.82	11.8	10.7
75-79	68.78	81.67	9.0	8.2
80-84	109.16	126.91	6.7	6.1
85-89	170.90	196.70	4.9	4.4
90-94	264.99	301.95	3.5	3.1
95-99	387.06	434.16	2.5	2.3
100+	507.95	549.00	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1976

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