Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 60.0 years in 1988: 65.2 for women and 55.1 for men, a gap of 10.0 years. 45,049 people died; 22.4% of them were 65 or older and 33.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1988

Life expectancy at birth

60.0

Women

65.2

Men

55.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

83.8

Deaths

45,049

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.7

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

395

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

194

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1988's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1988

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	60.32	74.36	65.2	55.1
1-4	4.99	5.64	68.1	58.3
5-9	0.80	1.06	65.5	55.6
10-14	0.82	1.27	60.7	50.9
15-19	1.39	4.30	56.0	46.2
20-24	1.64	6.69	51.4	42.1
25-29	1.90	7.39	46.8	38.5
30-34	2.05	7.58	42.2	34.8
35-39	2.82	9.57	37.6	31.1
40-44	4.68	10.11	33.1	27.5
45-49	6.49	13.63	28.8	23.8
50-54	8.18	16.77	24.7	20.3
55-59	14.03	24.31	20.6	16.8
60-64	20.54	35.07	16.9	13.6
65-69	32.04	50.61	13.4	10.8
70-74	53.50	84.11	10.3	8.2
75-79	88.10	131.94	7.7	6.2
80-84	139.35	181.08	5.7	4.8
85-89	215.90	248.75	4.1	3.7
90-94	308.03	344.02	3.1	2.8
95-99	420.80	458.52	2.3	2.1
100+	546.99	580.18	1.8	1.7

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 1988

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