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

Colombia

1987

Life expectancy: 68.2

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

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-5 -1 1987 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Colombia was 68.2 years in 1987: 72.0 for women and 64.5 for men, a gap of 7.5 years. 179,472 people died; 35.6% of them were 65 or older and 19.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1987

Life expectancy at birth

68.2

Women

72.0

Men

64.5

Life expectancy at 65

15.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

32.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

40.8

Deaths

179,472

Deaths per 1,000 people

5.9

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

261

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

149

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1987's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1987

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	29.33	37.29	72.0	64.5
1-4	2.03	2.30	73.1	66.0
5-9	0.54	0.77	69.7	62.6
10-14	0.47	0.74	64.9	57.8
15-19	0.85	2.28	60.0	53.0
20-24	1.06	4.26	55.3	48.6
25-29	1.19	4.82	50.6	44.6
30-34	1.39	4.79	45.8	40.6
35-39	2.08	5.29	41.1	36.5
40-44	2.77	5.50	36.6	32.4
45-49	4.65	7.49	32.0	28.2
50-54	7.35	10.35	27.7	24.2
55-59	10.83	15.65	23.7	20.4
60-64	16.02	23.20	19.8	16.8
65-69	25.68	36.04	16.3	13.6
70-74	37.56	53.55	13.1	10.8
75-79	58.23	82.89	10.3	8.3
80-84	87.96	123.62	8.0	6.3
85-89	130.84	180.43	6.1	4.8
90-94	190.16	256.03	4.6	3.6
95-99	268.05	349.22	3.5	2.8
100+	376.15	463.84	2.7	2.2

Mortality in Colombia by year

Mortality in Colombia, 1987

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