Life expectancy at birth in Egypt was 54.1 years in 1978: 56.3 for women and 51.9 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 598,456 people died; 22.1% of them were 65 or older and 51.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

54.1

Women

56.3

Men

51.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

124.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

186.8

Deaths

598,456

Deaths per 1,000 people

14.3

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

318

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

184

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	134.06	138.54	56.3	51.9
1-4	20.30	17.23	63.2	58.3
5-9	1.96	2.95	64.3	58.4
10-14	1.27	1.92	59.9	54.2
15-19	1.54	2.61	55.3	49.7
20-24	1.63	2.90	50.7	45.3
25-29	2.06	3.39	46.1	40.9
30-34	2.40	3.75	41.5	36.6
35-39	3.34	5.40	37.0	32.2
40-44	3.76	7.02	32.6	28.0
45-49	5.16	10.22	28.2	24.0
50-54	8.42	16.67	23.8	20.1
55-59	12.24	24.32	19.7	16.6
60-64	21.33	36.00	15.8	13.4
65-69	36.40	53.39	12.3	10.6
70-74	65.09	83.96	9.3	8.0
75-79	108.21	131.58	6.9	6.0
80-84	165.61	199.39	5.1	4.4
85-89	239.46	295.89	3.8	3.2
90-94	319.29	402.66	3.0	2.4
95-99	418.17	528.77	2.3	1.9
100+	526.48	651.38	1.9	1.5

Mortality in Egypt by year

Mortality in Egypt, 1978

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