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

Colombia

1954

Life expectancy: 51.3

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1954 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Colombia was 51.3 years in 1954: 53.7 for women and 49.0 for men, a gap of 4.7 years. 202,766 people died; 16.5% of them were 65 or older and 50.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

51.3

Women

53.7

Men

49.0

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

115.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

171.7

Deaths

202,766

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.5

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

392

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

295

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	116.22	134.34	53.7	49.0
1-4	16.23	16.95	59.1	54.8
5-9	3.90	4.32	59.0	54.5
10-14	2.44	2.82	55.1	50.6
15-19	3.19	4.68	50.7	46.3
20-24	3.95	7.09	46.5	42.4
25-29	4.52	7.04	42.4	38.8
30-34	5.28	7.20	38.3	35.1
35-39	6.29	8.33	34.2	31.3
40-44	7.66	10.15	30.3	27.5
45-49	9.31	13.01	26.3	23.8
50-54	12.48	17.57	22.5	20.2
55-59	17.16	24.18	18.8	16.9
60-64	26.83	35.59	15.2	13.7
65-69	41.61	52.47	12.0	10.9
70-74	68.31	80.56	9.2	8.4
75-79	105.93	120.56	7.0	6.4
80-84	160.94	181.56	5.2	4.7
85-89	236.49	268.45	3.8	3.5
90-94	331.42	372.03	2.9	2.6
95-99	445.29	492.01	2.2	2.0
100+	567.80	616.33	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Colombia by year

Mortality in Colombia, 1954

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