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

Caribbean

1982

Life expectancy: 64.8

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

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-5 -1 1982 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 64.8 years in 1982: 66.8 for women and 63.0 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 262,517 people died; 40.5% of them were 65 or older and 25.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1982

Life expectancy at birth

64.8

Women

66.8

Men

63.0

Life expectancy at 65

14.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

86.1

Deaths

262,517

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.6

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

228

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

176

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1982's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1982

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	61.17	72.98	66.8	63.0
1-4	5.79	6.16	69.9	66.6
5-9	1.30	1.34	67.5	64.3
10-14	0.96	0.99	63.0	59.7
15-19	1.48	1.70	58.3	55.0
20-24	1.94	2.62	53.7	50.4
25-29	2.20	3.01	49.2	46.0
30-34	2.54	3.33	44.7	41.7
35-39	3.08	4.03	40.2	37.4
40-44	3.93	5.25	35.8	33.1
45-49	5.26	7.07	31.5	28.9
50-54	7.64	10.13	27.2	24.8
55-59	10.59	14.45	23.2	21.0
60-64	16.26	22.01	19.3	17.3
65-69	24.88	32.90	15.7	14.1
70-74	38.78	49.56	12.5	11.1
75-79	61.58	75.36	9.6	8.6
80-84	99.81	118.49	7.2	6.4
85-89	153.27	182.07	5.3	4.6
90-94	234.29	281.76	3.8	3.3
95-99	364.28	445.44	2.6	2.2
100+	548.94	661.64	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1982

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