Mortality in Dominican Republic, 2021

Dominican Republic
2021
Life expectancy: 71.8
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Dominican Republic was 71.8 years in 2021: 75.4 for women and 68.3 for men, a gap of 7.1 years. 77,714 people died; 53.5% of them were 65 or older and 8.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
71.8
Women
75.4
Men
68.3
Life expectancy at 65
16.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
26.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
32.9
Deaths
77,714
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
209
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
115
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2021's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
024.3030.0575.568.3
1-41.551.6976.369.4
5-90.110.1772.865.8
10-140.150.2667.860.9
15-190.401.1262.856.0
20-240.772.2058.051.3
25-291.042.4953.246.8
30-341.332.7048.442.4
35-391.753.0743.737.9
40-442.524.5539.133.4
45-493.736.6234.629.1
50-545.339.5330.225.0
55-597.5114.5125.921.1
60-6411.2720.1221.817.5
65-6918.6231.0817.914.1
70-7429.8749.5314.411.1
75-7947.5778.0211.38.5
80-8474.94120.878.76.4
85-89116.19182.446.54.7
90-94175.69266.324.83.5
95-99256.04370.643.62.6
100+370.88495.762.72.0