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

China

1993

Life expectancy: 69.5

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Life expectancy at birth in China was 69.5 years in 1993: 72.0 for women and 67.1 for men, a gap of 4.9 years. 7,614,159 people died; 49.3% of them were 65 or older and 14.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1993

Life expectancy at birth

69.5

Women

72.0

Men

67.1

Life expectancy at 65

14.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

38.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

49.8

Deaths

7,614,159

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.4

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

175

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

109

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1993's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1993

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	36.75	41.54	72.0	67.1
1-4	3.10	3.05	73.7	68.9
5-9	1.23	1.33	70.6	65.7
10-14	0.69	1.09	66.0	61.2
15-19	0.65	1.08	61.2	56.5
20-24	0.92	1.50	56.4	51.8
25-29	1.10	1.82	51.6	47.1
30-34	1.29	2.06	46.9	42.5
35-39	1.59	2.48	42.2	38.0
40-44	2.21	3.68	37.5	33.4
45-49	3.15	5.11	32.9	29.0
50-54	5.01	8.40	28.4	24.7
55-59	7.26	12.23	24.0	20.6
60-64	13.29	21.60	19.8	16.7
65-69	21.89	33.40	16.0	13.3
70-74	35.52	53.25	12.6	10.3
75-79	58.38	84.79	9.5	7.7
80-84	102.18	142.08	6.9	5.5
85-89	165.98	231.82	4.9	3.8
90-94	271.38	375.49	3.4	2.5
95-99	427.16	617.18	2.3	1.6
100+	596.48	985.71	1.7	1.0

Mortality in China by year

Mortality in China, 1993

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