Mortality in Finland, 1951

Finland
1951
Life expectancy: 65.6
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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-5 -1   1951  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Finland was 65.6 years in 1951: 68.8 for women and 62.3 for men, a gap of 6.6 years. 40,377 people died; 50.7% of them were 65 or older and 10.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
65.6
Women
68.8
Men
62.3
Life expectancy at 65
12.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
34.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
41.8
Deaths
40,377
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
301
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
157
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1951'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
031.8638.5368.862.3
1-41.682.2670.063.7
5-90.621.0866.560.2
10-140.640.7961.755.5
15-191.021.3756.950.8
20-241.512.8552.246.1
25-291.883.1047.541.7
30-342.093.5543.037.3
35-392.554.1438.432.9
40-442.916.5633.828.6
45-494.479.9829.324.4
50-547.2215.7324.920.6
55-5910.5624.0620.717.0
60-6418.4034.9716.713.9
65-6932.3553.0713.111.0
70-7455.4378.159.98.7
75-7995.93112.557.36.6
80-84150.42171.075.34.9
85-89245.88262.203.73.5
90-94371.10361.902.62.7
95-99516.13479.011.92.1
100+662.78601.071.51.7