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

Cuba

1973

Life expectancy: 69.3

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

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-5 -1 1973 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Cuba was 69.3 years in 1973: 71.1 for women and 67.8 for men, a gap of 3.3 years. 61,023 people died; 46.5% of them were 65 or older and 16.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1973

Life expectancy at birth

69.3

Women

71.1

Men

67.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

32.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

40.9

Deaths

61,023

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.6

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

188

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

147

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1973's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1973

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	29.43	37.67	71.1	67.8
1-4	1.97	2.27	72.2	69.4
5-9	0.63	0.74	68.7	66.0
10-14	0.61	0.71	63.9	61.2
15-19	1.25	1.37	59.1	56.4
20-24	1.52	1.90	54.5	51.8
25-29	1.59	2.01	49.9	47.3
30-34	1.86	2.16	45.3	42.7
35-39	2.34	2.78	40.7	38.1
40-44	3.08	3.82	36.1	33.6
45-49	4.29	5.70	31.6	29.2
50-54	6.40	8.77	27.3	25.0
55-59	9.45	13.12	23.1	21.0
60-64	14.63	20.27	19.0	17.3
65-69	23.98	31.53	15.3	13.8
70-74	39.95	49.96	11.9	10.8
75-79	66.07	79.82	9.0	8.1
80-84	109.23	128.78	6.5	5.9
85-89	181.22	208.46	4.6	4.1
90-94	302.33	340.44	3.0	2.8
95-99	508.24	577.70	1.9	1.7
100+	857.78	1030.82	1.2	1.0

Mortality in Cuba by year

Mortality in Cuba, 1973

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