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

China

1974

Life expectancy: 60.2

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Life expectancy at birth in China was 60.2 years in 1974: 62.3 for women and 58.2 for men, a gap of 4.2 years. 8,544,007 people died; 29.7% of them were 65 or older and 28.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1974

Life expectancy at birth

60.2

Women

62.3

Men

58.2

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

89.7

Deaths

8,544,007

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.5

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

283

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

212

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1974's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1974

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	64.35	71.06	62.4	58.2
1-4	6.98	6.71	65.4	61.4
5-9	3.09	3.14	63.2	59.0
10-14	1.84	2.52	59.2	54.9
15-19	1.58	2.25	54.7	50.6
20-24	1.96	2.75	50.1	46.1
25-29	2.39	3.17	45.6	41.7
30-34	2.83	3.62	41.1	37.3
35-39	3.66	4.43	36.6	33.0
40-44	5.13	6.56	32.3	28.7
45-49	6.69	8.97	28.0	24.5
50-54	9.87	14.20	23.9	20.5
55-59	13.41	20.50	20.0	16.9
60-64	23.56	36.10	16.2	13.4
65-69	37.32	55.72	12.9	10.5
70-74	56.88	83.91	10.0	8.1
75-79	88.21	124.00	7.5	6.1
80-84	149.65	194.42	5.3	4.4
85-89	238.56	292.32	3.7	3.2
90-94	377.15	445.73	2.5	2.2
95-99	562.89	681.02	1.8	1.5
100+	730.94	1009.80	1.4	1.0

Mortality in China by year

Mortality in China, 1974

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