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

Costa Rica

1962

Life expectancy: 64.2

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

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-5 -1 1962 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 64.2 years in 1962: 65.6 for women and 62.9 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 11,686 people died; 22.5% of them were 65 or older and 49.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1962

Life expectancy at birth

64.2

Women

65.6

Men

62.9

Life expectancy at 65

13.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

73.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

93.6

Deaths

11,686

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.2

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

195

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

168

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1962's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1962

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	72.42	83.40	65.6	62.9
1-4	5.32	5.49	69.4	67.3
5-9	1.57	1.78	66.9	64.7
10-14	0.79	1.05	62.4	60.3
15-19	0.90	1.38	57.6	55.6
20-24	1.39	2.06	52.9	50.9
25-29	1.82	2.01	48.2	46.4
30-34	2.23	2.48	43.6	41.9
35-39	3.33	3.23	39.1	37.4
40-44	3.86	4.53	34.7	32.9
45-49	5.26	6.06	30.3	28.6
50-54	7.77	9.10	26.1	24.4
55-59	10.23	12.38	22.0	20.5
60-64	19.78	21.79	18.0	16.6
65-69	28.09	32.76	14.6	13.2
70-74	46.29	55.95	11.4	10.1
75-79	73.89	91.28	8.8	7.6
80-84	114.46	144.81	6.6	5.5
85-89	172.98	222.27	4.9	4.0
90-94	253.21	324.48	3.6	2.9
95-99	354.10	446.17	2.7	2.2
100+	477.69	579.78	2.1	1.7

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1962

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