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

Finland

1954

Life expectancy: 67.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Finland was 67.5 years in 1954: 70.6 for women and 64.2 for men, a gap of 6.4 years. 37,946 people died; 53.8% of them were 65 or older and 8.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

67.5

Women

70.6

Men

64.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

30.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

36.7

Deaths

37,946

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.1

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

256

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

137

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	26.49	35.65	70.7	64.2
1-4	1.36	1.94	71.5	65.5
5-9	0.45	0.84	67.9	62.0
10-14	0.38	0.75	63.1	57.3
15-19	0.62	1.17	58.2	52.5
20-24	0.91	1.81	53.3	47.8
25-29	1.31	2.24	48.6	43.2
30-34	1.76	2.53	43.9	38.6
35-39	1.89	3.78	39.2	34.1
40-44	2.84	5.27	34.6	29.7
45-49	4.09	8.35	30.1	25.4
50-54	6.24	13.40	25.6	21.4
55-59	9.69	20.49	21.3	17.7
60-64	17.15	32.76	17.3	14.3
65-69	28.01	48.70	13.6	11.4
70-74	53.32	72.62	10.2	8.9
75-79	89.99	111.06	7.6	6.7
80-84	146.19	171.52	5.5	5.0
85-89	221.26	242.62	4.0	3.7
90-94	328.95	359.29	2.9	2.7
95-99	456.81	491.84	2.2	2.0
100+	595.91	631.27	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Finland by year

Mortality in Finland, 1954

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