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

Costa Rica

1968

Life expectancy: 65.8

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

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-5 -1 1968 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Costa Rica was 65.8 years in 1968: 67.2 for women and 64.3 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 11,868 people died; 27.7% of them were 65 or older and 41.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

65.8

Women

67.2

Men

64.3

Life expectancy at 65

14.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

81.1

Deaths

11,868

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.8

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

189

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

155

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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	62.71	73.08	67.2	64.3
1-4	4.33	4.51	70.5	68.1
5-9	1.14	1.37	67.7	65.3
10-14	0.64	0.91	63.1	60.7
15-19	0.98	1.38	58.3	56.0
20-24	1.08	1.92	53.6	51.4
25-29	1.41	2.15	48.8	46.9
30-34	1.95	2.20	44.2	42.3
35-39	2.66	3.28	39.6	37.8
40-44	3.63	4.16	35.1	33.4
45-49	4.52	5.49	30.7	29.0
50-54	7.06	8.58	26.3	24.7
55-59	10.42	12.68	22.2	20.7
60-64	16.42	19.33	18.2	16.9
65-69	27.84	32.63	14.5	13.3
70-74	46.09	50.23	11.3	10.2
75-79	73.96	91.26	8.6	7.5
80-84	118.50	149.39	6.4	5.4
85-89	184.40	235.25	4.6	3.8
90-94	276.06	349.12	3.4	2.7
95-99	390.34	483.12	2.5	2.0
100+	525.49	623.33	1.9	1.6

Mortality in Costa Rica by year

Mortality in Costa Rica, 1968

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