Mortality in Finland, 1950

Finland
1950
Life expectancy: 64.2
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Finland was 64.2 years in 1950: 67.9 for women and 60.4 for men, a gap of 7.5 years. 42,536 people died; 47.7% of them were 65 or older and 12.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
64.2
Women
67.9
Men
60.4
Life expectancy at 65
12.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
41.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
50.8
Deaths
42,536
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
324
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
167
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
038.0148.4167.960.4
1-42.182.5569.562.3
5-90.751.1566.158.9
10-140.690.9861.454.3
15-191.272.2456.649.5
20-241.774.1851.945.0
25-292.084.1147.340.9
30-342.364.3542.836.7
35-392.535.3738.332.5
40-443.306.4933.728.3
45-494.6710.2229.324.2
50-547.5216.8524.920.3
55-5910.9924.2620.716.8
60-6418.2436.6816.813.7
65-6932.2353.8813.110.9
70-7456.1176.139.98.5
75-7994.81122.207.46.4
80-84149.50169.225.44.9
85-89230.09270.003.93.3
90-94356.45471.992.72.1
95-99503.90676.432.01.5
100+656.17838.221.51.2