Life expectancy at birth in Guyana was 55.2 years in 1956: 57.6 for women and 52.9 for men, a gap of 4.8 years. 6,523 people died; 23.1% of them were 65 or older and 37.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

55.2

Women

57.6

Men

52.9

Life expectancy at 65

10.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

85.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

113.4

Deaths

6,523

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.0

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

428

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

335

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

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	80.27	100.38	57.6	52.9
1-4	7.25	8.56	61.3	57.3
5-9	1.06	1.23	59.1	55.2
10-14	0.93	0.98	54.4	50.6
15-19	2.01	2.11	49.6	45.8
20-24	3.39	3.80	45.1	41.3
25-29	4.26	5.09	40.8	37.0
30-34	4.92	6.14	36.7	32.9
35-39	5.99	8.04	32.5	28.8
40-44	7.92	11.51	28.4	24.9
45-49	11.12	15.72	24.5	21.2
50-54	17.26	23.70	20.7	17.8
55-59	24.50	35.12	17.4	14.7
60-64	34.87	48.56	14.3	12.0
65-69	52.23	71.19	11.5	9.6
70-74	70.83	98.11	9.2	7.7
75-79	105.53	128.63	7.2	6.1
80-84	152.08	193.50	5.5	4.6
85-89	214.50	267.40	4.2	3.5
90-94	288.56	350.36	3.3	2.8
95-99	374.61	444.24	2.6	2.2
100+	476.76	546.75	2.1	1.8

Mortality in Guyana by year

Mortality in Guyana, 1956

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