El Salvador Mortality 2009: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 70.4 years in 2009: 74.8 for women and 65.7 for men, a gap of 9.0 years. 45,057 people died; 54.2% of them were 65 or older and 5.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2009

Life expectancy at birth

70.4

Women

74.8

Men

65.7

Life expectancy at 65

16.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

17.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

20.8

Deaths

45,057

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.5

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

296

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

128

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2009's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2009

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	15.27	19.08	74.8	65.7
1-4	0.95	1.02	74.9	66.0
5-9	0.37	0.40	71.2	62.2
10-14	0.46	0.61	66.3	57.4
15-19	0.96	2.84	61.5	52.5
20-24	0.99	4.63	56.7	48.2
25-29	1.26	6.04	52.0	44.3
30-34	1.54	7.00	47.3	40.6
35-39	2.05	6.72	42.7	37.0
40-44	2.63	7.34	38.1	33.1
45-49	3.95	9.46	33.6	29.3
50-54	5.72	11.47	29.2	25.6
55-59	8.34	14.78	24.9	21.9
60-64	12.10	19.22	20.9	18.4
65-69	17.90	26.27	17.0	15.0
70-74	27.41	37.98	13.4	11.8
75-79	49.76	66.18	10.0	8.7
80-84	94.31	120.45	7.1	6.1
85-89	170.90	207.58	4.9	4.2
90-94	267.32	304.97	3.4	3.1
95-99	391.90	425.10	2.5	2.3
100+	538.59	559.44	1.9	1.8

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 2009

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