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

Caribbean

1988

Life expectancy: 66.2

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

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-5 -1 1988 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 66.2 years in 1988: 68.3 for women and 64.2 for men, a gap of 4.1 years. 275,930 people died; 43.1% of them were 65 or older and 22.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1988

Life expectancy at birth

66.2

Women

68.3

Men

64.2

Life expectancy at 65

15.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

54.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

71.7

Deaths

275,930

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.3

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

225

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

169

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1988's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1988

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	51.11	61.53	68.3	64.2
1-4	4.50	4.83	70.8	67.2
5-9	1.29	1.31	68.1	64.5
10-14	0.97	1.02	63.5	59.9
15-19	1.42	1.69	58.8	55.2
20-24	1.77	2.52	54.2	50.7
25-29	2.00	2.88	49.7	46.3
30-34	2.43	3.46	45.2	41.9
35-39	2.94	4.07	40.7	37.6
40-44	3.70	5.15	36.2	33.3
45-49	5.02	6.96	31.9	29.1
50-54	7.35	10.09	27.6	25.1
55-59	10.32	14.22	23.6	21.2
60-64	15.58	21.43	19.7	17.6
65-69	23.71	31.86	16.0	14.3
70-74	37.28	48.07	12.7	11.3
75-79	59.25	73.48	9.8	8.7
80-84	94.74	114.43	7.4	6.5
85-89	149.16	177.25	5.4	4.7
90-94	230.48	271.40	3.9	3.4
95-99	348.43	406.59	2.7	2.4
100+	508.72	574.85	2.0	1.7

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1988

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