Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Finland

1953

Life expectancy: 66.6

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Finland was 66.6 years in 1953: 69.8 for women and 63.2 for men, a gap of 6.5 years. 39,870 people died; 53.7% of them were 65 or older and 9.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

66.6

Women

69.8

Men

63.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

33.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

40.7

Deaths

39,870

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.6

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

273

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

144

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	29.46	38.83	69.8	63.3
1-4	1.68	2.18	70.8	64.7
5-9	0.60	0.93	67.3	61.3
10-14	0.42	0.76	62.5	56.5
15-19	0.66	1.30	57.6	51.8
20-24	0.98	1.90	52.8	47.1
25-29	1.28	2.43	48.0	42.5
30-34	1.67	3.07	43.3	38.0
35-39	2.10	3.81	38.7	33.5
40-44	2.79	5.46	34.1	29.1
45-49	4.12	8.99	29.5	24.9
50-54	6.64	13.76	25.1	20.9
55-59	10.77	22.91	20.8	17.2
60-64	17.58	32.79	16.8	14.0
65-69	31.52	52.02	13.1	11.0
70-74	55.02	77.59	9.9	8.5
75-79	96.60	119.93	7.3	6.4
80-84	150.34	178.54	5.3	4.8
85-89	245.41	260.72	3.7	3.5
90-94	371.44	363.56	2.6	2.6
95-99	522.43	486.87	1.9	2.0
100+	671.95	613.54	1.5	1.6

Mortality in Finland by year

Mortality in Finland, 1953

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