Finland

2005

Life expectancy: 79.0

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Finland was 79.0 years in 2005: 82.3 for women and 75.5 for men, a gap of 6.8 years. 47,893 people died; 76.0% of them were 65 or older and 0.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2005

Life expectancy at birth

79.0

Women

82.3

Men

75.5

Life expectancy at 65

19.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

3.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

4.2

Deaths

47,893

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.1

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

137

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2005's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2005

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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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	2.82	3.23	82.3	75.5
1-4	0.22	0.35	81.5	74.8
5-9	0.21	0.23	77.6	70.9
10-14	0.16	0.17	72.7	66.0
15-19	0.30	0.50	67.7	61.0
20-24	0.34	0.89	62.8	56.2
25-29	0.31	0.90	57.9	51.4
30-34	0.49	1.26	53.0	46.6
35-39	0.81	1.84	48.1	41.9
40-44	1.15	2.79	43.3	37.3
45-49	2.04	4.40	38.6	32.7
50-54	3.13	6.93	33.9	28.4
55-59	4.39	9.98	29.4	24.3
60-64	6.20	14.38	25.0	20.4
65-69	8.55	20.17	20.7	16.8
70-74	15.71	30.89	16.5	13.3
75-79	27.47	54.69	12.7	10.1
80-84	57.40	90.53	9.1	7.4
85-89	111.16	144.86	6.3	5.3
90-94	200.02	258.89	4.2	3.5
95-99	333.60	397.02	2.8	2.4
100+	506.97	568.31	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Finland by year

Mortality in Finland, 2005

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