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

Colombia

1962

Life expectancy: 57.7

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

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-5 -1 1962 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Colombia was 57.7 years in 1962: 59.5 for women and 56.0 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 185,626 people died; 18.9% of them were 65 or older and 49.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1962

Life expectancy at birth

57.7

Women

59.5

Men

56.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

90.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

126.8

Deaths

185,626

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.2

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

292

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

235

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1962's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1962

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	89.48	104.03	59.5	56.0
1-4	9.92	10.44	64.0	60.9
5-9	2.30	2.71	62.5	59.5
10-14	1.55	1.86	58.2	55.2
15-19	2.13	2.92	53.6	50.7
20-24	2.63	3.94	49.2	46.4
25-29	3.04	3.79	44.8	42.3
30-34	3.67	4.08	40.4	38.1
35-39	4.55	5.04	36.1	33.8
40-44	5.76	6.67	31.9	29.6
45-49	7.33	9.28	27.8	25.5
50-54	10.17	13.46	23.7	21.6
55-59	14.33	19.70	19.8	17.9
60-64	22.78	30.33	16.1	14.5
65-69	36.16	46.34	12.7	11.5
70-74	60.96	72.96	9.7	8.8
75-79	98.24	112.81	7.3	6.7
80-84	151.65	171.25	5.4	4.9
85-89	225.24	253.86	4.0	3.6
90-94	313.71	349.79	3.0	2.7
95-99	420.69	464.01	2.3	2.1
100+	540.10	584.90	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Colombia by year

Mortality in Colombia, 1962

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