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

Colombia

1968

Life expectancy: 60.6

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

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-5 -1 1968 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Colombia was 60.6 years in 1968: 62.3 for women and 58.8 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 179,434 people died; 22.2% of them were 65 or older and 44.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

60.6

Women

62.3

Men

58.8

Life expectancy at 65

12.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

76.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

104.1

Deaths

179,434

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.1

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

262

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

210

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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	74.34	87.42	62.3	58.8
1-4	7.33	7.82	66.1	63.1
5-9	1.77	2.11	64.0	61.0
10-14	1.21	1.50	59.5	56.6
15-19	1.71	2.47	54.9	52.0
20-24	2.11	3.26	50.3	47.7
25-29	2.46	3.10	45.8	43.4
30-34	3.02	3.34	41.4	39.0
35-39	3.84	4.18	37.0	34.7
40-44	5.00	5.66	32.6	30.3
45-49	6.58	8.13	28.4	26.1
50-54	9.26	12.15	24.2	22.1
55-59	13.22	18.30	20.3	18.3
60-64	21.11	28.61	16.5	14.8
65-69	33.93	44.36	13.0	11.7
70-74	57.78	70.30	10.0	9.0
75-79	94.48	109.61	7.5	6.8
80-84	147.29	167.12	5.5	5.0
85-89	221.11	250.19	4.1	3.7
90-94	310.31	347.13	3.1	2.8
95-99	418.54	462.01	2.3	2.1
100+	539.75	584.22	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Colombia by year

Mortality in Colombia, 1968

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