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

Costa Rica

1954

Life expectancy: 59.9

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 Costa Rica was 59.9 years in 1954: 60.7 for women and 59.0 for men, a gap of 1.6 years. 11,360 people died; 20.4% of them were 65 or older and 51.0% 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

59.9

Women

60.7

Men

59.0

Life expectancy at 65

13.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

93.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

122.6

Deaths

11,360

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.7

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

231

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

223

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	94.98	105.77	60.7	59.0
1-4	8.16	8.02	65.6	64.5
5-9	2.20	2.67	63.7	62.5
10-14	1.15	1.39	59.4	58.3
15-19	1.56	1.69	54.7	53.7
20-24	2.42	2.69	50.1	49.1
25-29	2.66	2.61	45.7	44.8
30-34	3.27	3.38	41.3	40.3
35-39	4.84	4.37	36.9	36.0
40-44	5.98	5.37	32.8	31.7
45-49	6.26	6.87	28.7	27.5
50-54	9.94	11.39	24.5	23.4
55-59	13.49	14.17	20.6	19.6
60-64	23.06	25.94	16.9	15.8
65-69	33.72	38.58	13.6	12.7
70-74	54.77	61.12	10.7	9.8
75-79	82.63	96.26	8.3	7.4
80-84	124.84	146.22	6.3	5.6
85-89	184.11	216.09	4.7	4.1
90-94	263.13	306.34	3.5	3.1
95-99	360.57	413.83	2.7	2.4
100+	478.54	535.99	2.1	1.9

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1954

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