Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 54.7 years in 1978: 59.3 for women and 50.6 for men, a gap of 8.7 years. 53,090 people died; 17.8% 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, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

54.7

Women

59.3

Men

50.6

Life expectancy at 65

11.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

102.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

144.5

Deaths

53,090

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.1

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

416

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

230

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	100.45	121.15	59.3	50.6
1-4	11.23	12.67	64.4	55.9
5-9	1.45	1.57	63.2	54.7
10-14	1.07	1.42	58.7	50.1
15-19	2.07	3.05	54.0	45.5
20-24	2.07	7.06	49.5	41.1
25-29	2.13	7.68	45.0	37.5
30-34	2.62	8.60	40.5	33.9
35-39	4.48	12.02	36.0	30.3
40-44	5.27	12.09	31.7	27.0
45-49	8.04	15.60	27.5	23.5
50-54	10.91	19.24	23.5	20.2
55-59	14.60	22.15	19.7	17.0
60-64	24.69	37.92	16.0	13.7
65-69	36.48	55.14	12.8	11.0
70-74	59.54	73.23	9.8	8.8
75-79	96.38	116.36	7.3	6.5
80-84	150.00	174.40	5.4	4.9
85-89	228.02	256.41	4.0	3.6
90-94	317.11	352.30	3.0	2.7
95-99	425.12	467.02	2.3	2.1
100+	544.72	587.54	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1978

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