Mortality in China, 1960

China
1960
Life expectancy: 33.4
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.
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Life expectancy at birth in China was 33.4 years in 1960: 34.9 for women and 32.2 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 19,506,188 people died; 18.4% of them were 65 or older and 39.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
33.4
Women
34.9
Men
32.2
Life expectancy at 65
7.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
196.1
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
336.1
Deaths
19,506,188
Deaths per 1,000 people
29.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
598
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
480
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960'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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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0220.58233.8234.932.2
1-450.2347.9142.139.2
5-915.3915.5646.842.9
10-148.829.9745.441.2
15-196.147.3242.338.2
20-247.178.6838.634.5
25-297.899.8334.931.0
30-348.8711.2331.227.4
35-3910.5913.5627.523.8
40-4413.8918.9123.920.3
45-4917.9125.5320.417.1
50-5425.1937.0617.114.1
55-5932.9049.4814.011.4
60-6452.0276.4511.18.9
65-6979.46110.838.67.0
70-74117.05156.386.65.4
75-79161.66211.645.14.2
80-84252.82303.313.63.1
85-89373.99416.072.62.3
90-94515.12560.441.91.8
95-99686.61785.511.51.3
100+822.441114.451.20.9