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

Mortality in France, 2011

France
2011
Life expectancy: 81.8
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in France was 81.8 years in 2011: 85.0 for women and 78.4 for men, a gap of 6.6 years. 541,297 people died; 79.8% of them were 65 or older and 0.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 85-89. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
81.8
Women
85.0
Men
78.4
Life expectancy at 65
21.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
3.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
4.0
Deaths
541,297
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
113
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
53
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2011'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.
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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
03.093.6485.078.4
1-40.150.1884.377.7
5-90.070.0980.373.7
10-140.080.1175.368.8
15-190.180.4070.463.8
20-240.240.7365.458.9
25-290.280.8560.554.1
30-340.380.9355.649.4
35-390.611.3550.744.6
40-441.042.0845.839.9
45-491.713.3441.135.3
50-542.665.6836.430.8
55-593.708.5131.826.6
60-645.0311.4427.422.7
65-697.0015.6123.018.8
70-7410.8523.1718.815.2
75-7919.2837.7614.611.7
80-8439.1367.5210.98.6
85-8978.82120.817.66.1
90-94151.95209.165.14.1
95-99266.86335.603.42.8
100+436.97498.652.32.0