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

Costa Rica

1966

Life expectancy: 65.1

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

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-5 -1 1966 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 65.1 years in 1966: 66.6 for women and 63.6 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 12,038 people died; 25.8% of them were 65 or older and 45.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

65.1

Women

66.6

Men

63.6

Life expectancy at 65

13.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

68.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

86.6

Deaths

12,038

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.3

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

192

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

159

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

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	67.09	77.65	66.6	63.6
1-4	4.74	4.90	70.1	67.7
5-9	1.14	1.41	67.4	65.0
10-14	0.63	0.95	62.8	60.4
15-19	0.96	1.33	58.0	55.7
20-24	1.15	1.93	53.3	51.0
25-29	1.46	2.08	48.6	46.5
30-34	2.03	2.49	43.9	42.0
35-39	2.98	3.40	39.3	37.5
40-44	3.90	4.14	34.9	33.1
45-49	4.96	5.74	30.5	28.7
50-54	7.02	8.91	26.2	24.4
55-59	10.12	12.63	22.1	20.4
60-64	17.80	19.61	18.1	16.6
65-69	29.16	33.39	14.5	13.0
70-74	45.84	54.88	11.4	10.0
75-79	74.24	94.23	8.7	7.3
80-84	117.00	153.81	6.5	5.3
85-89	179.44	241.26	4.7	3.7
90-94	265.63	356.12	3.5	2.7
95-99	373.38	489.78	2.6	2.0
100+	502.51	629.37	2.0	1.6

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1966

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