El Salvador Mortality 1950: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 44.2 years in 1950: 46.2 for women and 42.3 for men, a gap of 3.9 years. 45,946 people died; 16.6% of them were 65 or older and 47.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1950

Life expectancy at birth

44.2

Women

46.2

Men

42.3

Life expectancy at 65

10.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

146.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

224.9

Deaths

45,946

Deaths per 1,000 people

21.0

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

476

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

418

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1950

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	144.05	180.95	46.2	42.3
1-4	21.79	27.30	52.2	49.4
5-9	4.90	4.96	52.7	50.8
10-14	4.93	4.48	49.0	47.0
15-19	6.66	6.24	45.1	43.0
20-24	7.99	7.98	41.6	39.3
25-29	8.93	8.59	38.2	35.8
30-34	10.01	9.93	34.8	32.3
35-39	10.27	11.24	31.4	28.8
40-44	11.65	14.53	28.0	25.3
45-49	12.83	17.30	24.5	22.0
50-54	16.98	22.91	20.9	18.8
55-59	22.72	30.34	17.6	15.7
60-64	32.60	41.61	14.4	12.9
65-69	46.94	58.78	11.5	10.3
70-74	74.82	89.05	8.9	8.0
75-79	112.35	130.23	6.8	6.1
80-84	163.82	184.93	5.1	4.7
85-89	236.08	260.03	3.9	3.6
90-94	326.17	352.84	2.9	2.7
95-99	435.11	464.78	2.3	2.1
100+	554.08	582.11	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1950

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