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

Central America

1966

Life expectancy: 55.9

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

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-5 -1 1966 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Central America was 55.9 years in 1966: 57.8 for women and 54.1 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 727,553 people died; 16.3% of them were 65 or older and 50.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

55.9

Women

57.8

Men

54.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

96.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

134.6

Deaths

727,553

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.0

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

343

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

265

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

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	95.95	110.54	57.9	54.1
1-4	10.67	11.06	62.5	59.3
5-9	2.86	3.02	61.2	57.9
10-14	1.51	1.82	57.0	53.7
15-19	2.08	2.55	52.5	49.2
20-24	3.09	3.94	48.0	44.8
25-29	3.94	4.89	43.7	40.6
30-34	4.47	6.07	39.5	36.6
35-39	6.01	8.25	35.3	32.6
40-44	6.53	9.36	31.3	28.9
45-49	8.55	12.14	27.3	25.1
50-54	11.11	15.18	23.4	21.5
55-59	15.65	21.40	19.6	18.0
60-64	26.59	32.20	15.9	14.8
65-69	38.85	47.85	12.8	11.9
70-74	58.75	65.74	10.0	9.5
75-79	90.29	99.93	7.6	7.2
80-84	142.04	152.61	5.6	5.4
85-89	217.91	226.12	4.1	4.0
90-94	304.06	306.77	3.1	3.1
95-99	428.50	414.85	2.3	2.3
100+	621.08	570.94	1.6	1.8

Mortality in Central America by year

Mortality in Central America, 1966

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