Life expectancy at birth in Egypt was 47.1 years in 1964: 50.1 for women and 44.3 for men, a gap of 5.7 years. 580,444 people died; 14.2% of them were 65 or older and 63.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1964

Life expectancy at birth

47.1

Women

50.1

Men

44.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

167.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

280.4

Deaths

580,444

Deaths per 1,000 people

19.4

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

331

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

191

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1964's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1964

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	185.00	194.77	50.1	44.3
1-4	40.40	34.49	58.8	52.4
5-9	2.51	6.02	64.6	55.8
10-14	1.47	3.21	60.4	52.5
15-19	1.53	4.26	55.8	48.3
20-24	1.78	5.44	51.2	44.3
25-29	2.22	5.40	46.7	40.4
30-34	2.70	5.43	42.2	36.5
35-39	3.53	6.50	37.7	32.4
40-44	4.50	7.94	33.3	28.4
45-49	5.71	10.30	29.0	24.4
50-54	8.00	13.90	24.8	20.6
55-59	12.31	20.98	20.7	16.9
60-64	19.48	33.76	16.9	13.5
65-69	32.15	53.16	13.3	10.5
70-74	57.00	85.63	10.2	7.9
75-79	92.70	135.81	7.7	5.8
80-84	139.81	207.24	5.9	4.2
85-89	198.28	309.41	4.5	3.1
90-94	262.74	418.37	3.6	2.3
95-99	346.53	549.53	2.8	1.8
100+	445.65	672.36	2.2	1.5

Mortality in Egypt by year

Mortality in Egypt, 1964

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