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

China

1973

Life expectancy: 59.5

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Life expectancy at birth in China was 59.5 years in 1973: 61.5 for women and 57.6 for men, a gap of 3.9 years. 8,835,447 people died; 28.4% of them were 65 or older and 30.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1973

Life expectancy at birth

59.5

Women

61.5

Men

57.6

Life expectancy at 65

11.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

67.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

94.8

Deaths

8,835,447

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.0

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

290

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

221

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1973's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1973

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	67.69	74.72	61.5	57.6
1-4	7.53	7.24	64.7	60.9
5-9	3.30	3.31	62.6	58.7
10-14	1.92	2.58	58.6	54.6
15-19	1.64	2.31	54.2	50.3
20-24	2.09	2.83	49.6	45.8
25-29	2.50	3.24	45.1	41.5
30-34	2.99	3.74	40.6	37.1
35-39	3.86	4.56	36.2	32.7
40-44	5.38	6.73	31.9	28.4
45-49	6.99	9.20	27.7	24.3
50-54	10.32	14.64	23.6	20.3
55-59	14.04	21.12	19.7	16.7
60-64	24.55	37.07	15.9	13.3
65-69	38.64	56.95	12.7	10.4
70-74	58.84	85.22	9.8	8.1
75-79	91.81	126.31	7.3	6.1
80-84	155.12	196.27	5.2	4.4
85-89	246.15	294.47	3.6	3.1
90-94	385.67	445.82	2.5	2.2
95-99	572.67	680.05	1.7	1.5
100+	737.41	1004.92	1.4	1.0

Mortality in China by year

Mortality in China, 1973

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