Life expectancy at birth in Guatemala was 52.8 years in 1973: 54.6 for women and 51.2 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 77,867 people died; 12.9% of them were 65 or older and 50.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1973

Life expectancy at birth

52.8

Women

54.6

Men

51.2

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

108.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

155.4

Deaths

77,867

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.4

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

359

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

284

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1973's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1973

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.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	109.46	124.55	54.6	51.3
1-4	13.49	13.76	59.8	56.8
5-9	5.07	4.86	59.0	55.9
10-14	2.33	2.57	55.4	52.3
15-19	2.86	3.13	51.1	47.9
20-24	3.98	5.26	46.8	43.6
25-29	4.70	5.84	42.6	39.7
30-34	5.89	7.07	38.6	35.8
35-39	7.39	8.33	34.7	32.0
40-44	7.34	10.31	30.9	28.3
45-49	8.04	11.60	26.9	24.6
50-54	11.76	16.33	22.9	21.0
55-59	14.69	20.97	19.2	17.5
60-64	28.52	32.88	15.4	14.2
65-69	37.28	43.16	12.4	11.3
70-74	64.66	81.39	9.4	8.4
75-79	103.22	123.33	7.1	6.3
80-84	155.26	179.20	5.3	4.8
85-89	229.79	258.09	3.9	3.6
90-94	319.37	355.58	3.0	2.7
95-99	427.82	472.59	2.3	2.1
100+	547.56	596.73	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Guatemala by year

Mortality in Guatemala, 1973

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