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

French Guiana

1998

Life expectancy: 72.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in French Guiana was 72.5 years in 1998: 76.3 for women and 69.3 for men, a gap of 7.0 years. 678 people died; 44.9% of them were 65 or older and 12.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1998

Life expectancy at birth

72.5

Women

76.3

Men

69.3

Life expectancy at 65

15.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

15.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

19.7

Deaths

678

Deaths per 1,000 people

4.6

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

186

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1998

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	11.51	20.16	76.3	69.3
1-4	0.79	1.23	76.1	69.7
5-9	0.21	0.33	72.4	66.0
10-14	0.14	0.54	67.4	61.1
15-19	0.54	1.35	62.5	56.3
20-24	0.73	1.89	57.7	51.7
25-29	0.91	2.28	52.9	47.1
30-34	1.28	2.46	48.1	42.6
35-39	1.54	3.44	43.4	38.1
40-44	1.58	3.91	38.7	33.7
45-49	2.32	5.30	34.0	29.4
50-54	3.66	8.06	29.3	25.1
55-59	6.34	12.44	24.8	21.0
60-64	11.45	18.25	20.5	17.2
65-69	18.84	30.64	16.6	13.6
70-74	32.18	52.63	13.0	10.4
75-79	55.47	88.21	9.8	7.8
80-84	96.64	137.63	7.1	5.7
85-89	161.86	211.16	5.1	4.2
90-94	253.15	308.78	3.6	3.1
95-99	372.60	426.42	2.6	2.3
100+	516.50	558.53	1.9	1.8

Mortality in French Guiana by year

Mortality in French Guiana, 1998

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