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

Cuba

1976

Life expectancy: 70.9

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

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-5 -1 1976 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Cuba was 70.9 years in 1976: 72.4 for women and 69.5 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 60,011 people died; 53.2% of them were 65 or older and 10.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1976

Life expectancy at birth

70.9

Women

72.4

Men

69.5

Life expectancy at 65

15.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

25.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

31.8

Deaths

60,011

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.3

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

175

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

138

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1976's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1976

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	23.16	29.38	72.5	69.5
1-4	1.47	1.65	73.1	70.5
5-9	0.55	0.63	69.6	67.0
10-14	0.56	0.64	64.7	62.2
15-19	1.18	1.28	59.9	57.4
20-24	1.41	1.74	55.2	52.7
25-29	1.47	1.84	50.6	48.2
30-34	1.72	1.97	46.0	43.6
35-39	2.18	2.55	41.4	39.0
40-44	2.87	3.53	36.8	34.4
45-49	4.02	5.28	32.3	30.0
50-54	6.01	8.15	27.9	25.7
55-59	8.85	12.15	23.6	21.7
60-64	13.68	18.75	19.6	17.9
65-69	22.40	29.12	15.8	14.4
70-74	37.21	46.00	12.4	11.3
75-79	61.50	73.46	9.4	8.5
80-84	101.70	118.58	6.8	6.2
85-89	168.92	192.19	4.8	4.4
90-94	282.32	314.56	3.2	2.9
95-99	476.12	521.53	2.0	1.9
100+	804.31	869.41	1.2	1.2

Mortality in Cuba by year

Mortality in Cuba, 1976

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