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

Costa Rica

1953

Life expectancy: 59.1

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

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 59.1 years in 1953: 59.9 for women and 58.3 for men, a gap of 1.6 years. 11,404 people died; 20.7% of them were 65 or older and 50.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

59.1

Women

59.9

Men

58.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

95.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

125.3

Deaths

11,404

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.1

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

242

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

234

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	96.96	107.86	59.9	58.3
1-4	8.44	8.28	64.8	63.7
5-9	2.43	2.77	63.0	61.8
10-14	1.17	1.51	58.7	57.6
15-19	1.65	1.91	54.1	53.1
20-24	2.59	2.89	49.5	48.5
25-29	3.04	2.90	45.1	44.2
30-34	3.63	3.63	40.8	39.8
35-39	5.41	4.87	36.5	35.5
40-44	6.31	5.56	32.4	31.3
45-49	6.51	7.12	28.3	27.1
50-54	10.41	12.23	24.2	23.0
55-59	13.66	14.32	20.3	19.3
60-64	24.45	27.23	16.6	15.5
65-69	34.18	39.60	13.4	12.4
70-74	57.09	63.87	10.4	9.6
75-79	85.50	99.36	8.1	7.3
80-84	129.03	150.50	6.1	5.4
85-89	189.99	221.61	4.6	4.0
90-94	270.61	312.89	3.4	3.0
95-99	369.26	420.82	2.6	2.3
100+	487.47	542.59	2.1	1.8

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1953

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