Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 59.3 years in 1986: 64.0 for women and 54.9 for men, a gap of 9.1 years. 45,162 people died; 21.0% of them were 65 or older and 38.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1986

Life expectancy at birth

59.3

Women

64.0

Men

54.9

Life expectancy at 65

12.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

74.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

98.8

Deaths

45,162

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.0

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

375

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

195

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1986's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1986

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	70.39	86.44	64.0	54.9
1-4	6.32	7.12	67.6	58.8
5-9	1.00	1.27	65.3	56.4
10-14	0.87	1.20	60.6	51.8
15-19	1.27	3.82	55.8	47.1
20-24	1.93	6.60	51.2	42.9
25-29	2.16	6.58	46.6	39.3
30-34	2.09	7.03	42.1	35.5
35-39	3.12	8.88	37.5	31.7
40-44	4.22	9.72	33.1	28.0
45-49	6.73	13.46	28.7	24.3
50-54	9.15	16.53	24.6	20.8
55-59	12.74	21.11	20.6	17.3
60-64	20.49	32.30	16.8	14.0
65-69	32.39	50.09	13.4	11.0
70-74	53.75	79.39	10.3	8.4
75-79	88.98	125.55	7.7	6.3
80-84	141.69	177.92	5.6	4.8
85-89	220.16	250.78	4.1	3.7
90-94	311.34	346.56	3.0	2.8
95-99	422.50	461.32	2.3	2.1
100+	546.27	582.99	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1986

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