Mortality in Costa Rica, 1960

Costa Rica
1960
Life expectancy: 63.5
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 63.5 years in 1960: 64.8 for women and 62.2 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 11,500 people died; 22.0% of them were 65 or older and 50.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
63.5
Women
64.8
Men
62.2
Life expectancy at 65
13.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
77.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
98.6
Deaths
11,500
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
201
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
177
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
076.2487.2564.862.2
1-45.765.8968.866.7
5-91.721.8366.464.3
10-140.881.1261.959.8
15-191.031.4757.255.2
20-241.511.8952.550.5
25-291.882.1347.946.0
30-342.342.4843.341.5
35-393.653.2538.837.0
40-444.284.5234.432.5
45-495.206.3830.128.2
50-547.898.8525.824.0
55-5911.1613.8021.820.0
60-6419.3323.3817.916.2
65-6929.3636.0414.412.9
70-7447.1157.3911.310.0
75-7975.2493.978.67.5
80-84117.04146.346.55.5
85-89177.38220.844.84.0
90-94260.02318.543.53.0
95-99363.28434.572.72.3
100+488.38563.602.11.8