El Salvador Mortality 1980: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 48.6 years in 1980: 58.9 for women and 41.0 for men, a gap of 17.9 years. 69,097 people died; 14.9% of them were 65 or older and 35.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1980

Life expectancy at birth

48.6

Women

58.9

Men

41.0

Life expectancy at 65

11.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

97.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

136.1

Deaths

69,097

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.2

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

672

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

249

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1980's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1980

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	94.88	115.02	58.9	41.1
1-4	10.23	11.54	63.7	44.9
5-9	1.45	1.63	62.3	42.9
10-14	1.16	1.75	57.7	38.3
15-19	2.86	10.28	53.0	33.6
20-24	2.87	22.00	48.8	30.2
25-29	2.71	21.87	44.4	28.4
30-34	3.18	21.79	40.0	26.4
35-39	5.03	24.19	35.6	24.2
40-44	6.64	26.06	31.4	22.0
45-49	8.49	27.36	27.4	19.7
50-54	11.01	31.68	23.5	17.2
55-59	14.30	37.45	19.7	14.8
60-64	25.39	47.75	15.9	12.3
65-69	38.22	62.74	12.7	9.9
70-74	57.98	94.07	9.9	7.7
75-79	95.55	139.91	7.4	5.9
80-84	149.03	189.85	5.4	4.6
85-89	227.21	256.06	4.0	3.6
90-94	317.85	346.94	3.0	2.8
95-99	427.82	458.78	2.3	2.1
100+	549.30	576.17	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1980

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