Guyana Mortality 2000: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Guyana was 64.1 years in 2000: 67.5 for women and 61.0 for men, a gap of 6.5 years. 5,935 people died; 36.1% of them were 65 or older and 16.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2000

Life expectancy at birth

64.1

Women

67.5

Men

61.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

37.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

46.5

Deaths

5,935

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.8

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

337

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

220

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2000's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2000

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	33.64	44.19	67.5	61.0
1-4	2.09	2.51	68.8	62.7
5-9	0.38	0.56	65.3	59.3
10-14	0.46	0.72	60.5	54.5
15-19	1.09	1.64	55.6	49.7
20-24	1.90	3.03	50.9	45.1
25-29	2.40	4.17	46.3	40.7
30-34	2.84	4.94	41.9	36.5
35-39	3.46	6.14	37.4	32.4
40-44	4.76	8.79	33.0	28.3
45-49	7.01	12.23	28.8	24.5
50-54	10.90	17.04	24.7	20.8
55-59	15.35	24.19	20.9	17.5
60-64	22.48	34.51	17.4	14.4
65-69	34.33	50.73	14.2	11.6
70-74	48.32	70.29	11.3	9.3
75-79	75.41	101.25	8.8	7.1
80-84	116.45	158.82	6.7	5.3
85-89	167.53	224.62	5.1	4.0
90-94	231.95	303.44	3.9	3.1
95-99	311.23	396.85	3.1	2.5
100+	413.39	504.13	2.4	2.0

Mortality in Guyana by year

Mortality in Guyana, 2000

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