El Salvador Mortality 2017: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in El Salvador was 71.0 years in 2017: 75.8 for women and 65.9 for men, a gap of 9.9 years. 46,567 people died; 53.7% of them were 65 or older and 3.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2017

Life expectancy at birth

71.0

Women

75.8

Men

65.9

Life expectancy at 65

16.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

11.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

14.3

Deaths

46,567

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.5

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

308

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

121

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2017

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	10.61	13.27	75.8	65.9
1-4	0.59	0.63	75.6	65.8
5-9	0.27	0.33	71.8	62.0
10-14	0.41	0.59	66.9	57.1
15-19	0.68	2.73	62.0	52.2
20-24	0.82	3.92	57.2	47.9
25-29	1.02	4.46	52.4	43.8
30-34	1.26	6.05	47.7	39.7
35-39	1.78	7.95	43.0	35.9
40-44	2.54	9.16	38.3	32.2
45-49	3.71	10.05	33.8	28.6
50-54	5.54	12.53	29.4	25.0
55-59	8.53	16.85	25.1	21.4
60-64	12.33	21.10	21.1	18.1
65-69	17.50	27.30	17.3	14.8
70-74	26.86	40.54	13.6	11.6
75-79	48.75	69.84	10.2	8.6
80-84	89.16	119.70	7.4	6.2
85-89	158.27	197.27	5.1	4.4
90-94	253.54	292.44	3.6	3.2
95-99	379.50	411.26	2.5	2.4
100+	530.53	546.48	1.9	1.8

Mortality in El Salvador by year

Mortality in El Salvador, 2017

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