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

French Guiana

1968

Life expectancy: 62.4

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Life expectancy at birth in French Guiana was 62.4 years in 1968: 66.5 for women and 59.2 for men, a gap of 7.3 years. 425 people died; 37.3% of them were 65 or older and 20.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

62.4

Women

66.5

Men

59.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

51.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

69.3

Deaths

425

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.7

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

300

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

201

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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	40.54	66.47	66.5	59.2
1-4	3.54	6.01	68.2	62.2
5-9	1.20	1.87	65.1	59.6
10-14	0.95	1.39	60.5	55.2
15-19	1.58	2.60	55.8	50.5
20-24	1.95	3.66	51.2	46.2
25-29	2.26	3.63	46.7	42.0
30-34	2.75	4.03	42.2	37.7
35-39	3.54	5.09	37.7	33.4
40-44	4.66	6.87	33.3	29.2
45-49	6.37	9.78	29.1	25.1
50-54	8.96	14.35	24.9	21.3
55-59	12.89	21.19	20.9	17.7
60-64	19.80	32.42	17.2	14.4
65-69	31.74	48.92	13.7	11.4
70-74	51.52	73.41	10.6	8.9
75-79	83.55	110.20	8.0	6.8
80-84	133.53	165.89	5.9	5.1
85-89	206.83	244.20	4.2	3.7
90-94	302.61	340.88	3.1	2.8
95-99	420.87	456.10	2.3	2.2
100+	553.59	579.51	1.8	1.7

Mortality in French Guiana by year

Mortality in French Guiana, 1968

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