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

Caribbean

1994

Life expectancy: 67.4

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

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-5 -1 1994 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Caribbean was 67.4 years in 1994: 69.7 for women and 65.1 for men, a gap of 4.6 years. 290,337 people died; 46.7% of them were 65 or older and 17.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1994

Life expectancy at birth

67.4

Women

69.7

Men

65.1

Life expectancy at 65

15.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

47.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

61.3

Deaths

290,337

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.1

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

223

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

158

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1994's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1994

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	44.01	53.36	69.7	65.1
1-4	3.64	3.89	71.8	67.6
5-9	1.19	1.22	68.9	64.7
10-14	0.93	0.99	64.2	60.0
15-19	1.34	1.74	59.5	55.3
20-24	1.65	2.51	54.9	50.8
25-29	1.81	2.80	50.4	46.4
30-34	2.16	3.35	45.8	42.0
35-39	2.74	4.09	41.3	37.7
40-44	3.49	5.19	36.8	33.4
45-49	4.62	6.92	32.4	29.2
50-54	6.70	9.72	28.1	25.2
55-59	9.77	14.10	24.0	21.3
60-64	14.87	20.66	20.0	17.6
65-69	22.28	31.04	16.4	14.3
70-74	35.33	47.78	13.0	11.3
75-79	57.00	74.08	10.0	8.6
80-84	91.93	116.78	7.5	6.4
85-89	145.75	182.54	5.5	4.6
90-94	228.92	282.16	3.9	3.3
95-99	333.98	407.66	2.9	2.4
100+	450.29	539.75	2.2	1.9

Mortality in Caribbean by year

Mortality in Caribbean, 1994

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