Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 54.4 years in 1983: 60.5 for women and 48.9 for men, a gap of 11.6 years. 55,708 people died; 19.1% of them were 65 or older and 37.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1983

Life expectancy at birth

54.4

Women

60.5

Men

48.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

87.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

119.7

Deaths

55,708

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.8

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

480

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

232

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1983's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1983

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	84.13	102.71	60.5	49.0
1-4	8.38	9.51	64.8	53.1
5-9	1.49	1.61	62.9	51.1
10-14	0.95	1.47	58.4	46.5
15-19	1.86	8.21	53.6	41.8
20-24	2.07	12.87	49.1	38.4
25-29	2.21	9.87	44.6	35.8
30-34	2.69	9.62	40.0	32.5
35-39	4.00	11.91	35.6	29.0
40-44	5.34	13.56	31.2	25.6
45-49	7.57	16.54	27.0	22.3
50-54	11.57	21.19	22.9	19.0
55-59	15.29	26.92	19.1	15.8
60-64	25.04	41.63	15.5	12.7
65-69	35.99	56.11	12.2	10.1
70-74	70.49	96.85	9.1	7.5
75-79	111.86	148.14	6.9	5.7
80-84	159.04	194.30	5.3	4.6
85-89	225.82	256.39	4.0	3.6
90-94	315.87	349.81	3.0	2.7
95-99	425.50	462.94	2.3	2.1
100+	546.84	581.90	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1983

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