Life expectancy at birth in Egypt was 42.1 years in 1957: 44.7 for women and 39.7 for men, a gap of 5.0 years. 611,806 people died; 9.9% of them were 65 or older and 70.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

42.1

Women

44.7

Men

39.7

Life expectancy at 65

11.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

192.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

347.4

Deaths

611,806

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.5

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

339

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

217

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	214.64	231.19	44.7	39.7
1-4	58.77	51.78	53.9	48.4
5-9	3.13	7.28	63.2	54.9
10-14	2.01	3.87	59.2	51.9
15-19	2.00	4.79	54.8	47.8
20-24	2.36	6.02	50.3	43.9
25-29	2.86	6.00	45.8	40.2
30-34	3.44	5.92	41.5	36.3
35-39	4.33	6.99	37.1	32.3
40-44	5.28	8.29	32.9	28.4
45-49	6.44	10.45	28.7	24.5
50-54	8.85	13.80	24.6	20.7
55-59	13.29	20.54	20.6	17.0
60-64	20.39	33.06	16.8	13.5
65-69	32.99	52.27	13.3	10.5
70-74	57.50	85.18	10.2	7.9
75-79	91.61	136.13	7.8	5.8
80-84	136.32	209.13	6.0	4.2
85-89	191.88	315.08	4.6	3.0
90-94	251.89	425.30	3.7	2.3
95-99	330.22	559.62	2.9	1.8
100+	424.65	683.11	2.4	1.5

Mortality in Egypt by year

Mortality in Egypt, 1957

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