Mortality in China, 1951

China
1951
Life expectancy: 44.6
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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-5 -1   1951  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in China was 44.6 years in 1951: 46.4 for women and 42.9 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 12,411,699 people died; 24.8% of them were 65 or older and 34.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
44.6
Women
46.4
Men
42.9
Life expectancy at 65
9.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
124.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
200.8
Deaths
12,411,699
Deaths per 1,000 people
22.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
501
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
394
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1951'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
0128.76144.1546.442.9
1-423.0622.7551.648.4
5-99.198.4452.448.8
10-145.055.8749.745.8
15-194.485.2445.942.1
20-245.686.3741.938.1
25-296.177.2138.134.3
30-346.928.1834.230.4
35-398.359.8430.326.6
40-4411.0614.4726.522.8
45-4913.5519.4122.819.3
50-5418.9628.9519.216.1
55-5924.7238.9015.913.2
60-6441.4762.1612.710.5
65-6963.2287.6210.08.4
70-7491.77120.017.86.7
75-79133.00160.916.05.3
80-84197.78223.444.54.0
85-89275.78306.593.43.1
90-94365.98418.322.62.3
95-99478.07577.182.11.7
100+592.00808.411.71.2