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

Mortality in Chile, 1978

Chile
1978
Life expectancy: 68.0
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1978  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Chile was 68.0 years in 1978: 71.2 for women and 65.0 for men, a gap of 6.2 years. 71,736 people died; 44.0% of them were 65 or older and 16.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
68.0
Women
71.2
Men
65.0
Life expectancy at 65
13.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
38.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
44.4
Deaths
71,736
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
223
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
132
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978'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.
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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
035.6343.4371.265.0
1-41.491.6872.766.9
5-90.510.6969.263.3
10-140.460.6664.358.5
15-190.691.1959.553.7
20-240.881.8754.749.0
25-290.992.0849.944.4
30-341.402.7045.139.9
35-392.213.9240.435.4
40-442.805.2335.831.0
45-494.197.4831.326.8
50-546.0110.2326.922.7
55-599.0915.8122.718.8
60-6415.1825.2518.615.1
65-6924.4240.8814.811.8
70-7440.4465.9711.48.9
75-7969.40110.688.46.4
80-84126.58196.425.94.3
85-89214.81320.704.02.9
90-94346.60486.732.72.0
95-99511.94666.541.91.5
100+677.28809.061.51.2