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

Costa Rica

1958

Life expectancy: 62.3

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

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-5 -1 1958 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 62.3 years in 1958: 63.5 for women and 61.1 for men, a gap of 2.4 years. 11,490 people died; 21.6% of them were 65 or older and 50.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1958

Life expectancy at birth

62.3

Women

63.5

Men

61.1

Life expectancy at 65

13.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

82.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

106.4

Deaths

11,490

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.3

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

212

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

190

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1958's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1958

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	82.40	93.23	63.5	61.1
1-4	6.50	6.54	67.8	65.9
5-9	1.80	2.04	65.5	63.6
10-14	0.95	1.19	61.1	59.3
15-19	1.33	1.42	56.4	54.6
20-24	1.73	2.00	51.7	50.0
25-29	1.94	2.31	47.2	45.4
30-34	2.50	2.70	42.6	40.9
35-39	3.74	3.49	38.1	36.5
40-44	4.73	4.96	33.8	32.1
45-49	5.85	6.88	29.5	27.8
50-54	8.41	9.23	25.3	23.7
55-59	11.95	14.66	21.3	19.7
60-64	20.27	24.07	17.5	16.0
65-69	31.05	36.96	14.0	12.7
70-74	49.98	60.99	11.0	9.8
75-79	79.31	96.50	8.4	7.3
80-84	123.12	149.66	6.3	5.4
85-89	186.02	225.06	4.6	4.0
90-94	271.49	323.21	3.4	2.9
95-99	377.27	439.31	2.6	2.2
100+	503.09	567.63	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1958

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