Mortality in Central America, 2015

Central America
2015
Life expectancy: 74.0
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Central America was 74.0 years in 2015: 76.7 for women and 71.4 for men, a gap of 5.3 years. 942,086 people died; 54.3% of them were 65 or older and 6.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
74.0
Women
76.7
Men
71.4
Life expectancy at 65
17.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
14.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
18.1
Deaths
942,086
Deaths per 1,000 people
5.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
192
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
102
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2015's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
013.4216.8276.771.4
1-40.760.8276.771.6
5-90.250.3172.967.8
10-140.300.4068.062.9
15-190.561.3063.158.0
20-240.672.1458.353.4
25-290.772.3653.548.9
30-340.972.8448.744.5
35-391.343.4943.940.1
40-441.954.4439.235.8
45-492.985.7734.531.5
50-544.778.3230.027.4
55-597.5712.0025.723.4
60-6411.5516.9121.519.7
65-6917.5924.7617.716.2
70-7426.9136.4814.113.0
75-7945.9257.3610.710.1
80-8482.1891.837.87.6
85-89142.57143.245.65.7
90-94221.96207.754.04.2
95-99336.85296.872.83.1
100+517.01443.011.92.3