Mortality in India, 1970

India
1970
Life expectancy: 48.6
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1970  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in India was 48.6 years in 1970: 48.0 for women and 49.1 for men, a gap of -1.1 years. 9,287,486 people died; 16.6% of them were 65 or older and 49.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
48.6
Women
48.0
Men
49.1
Life expectancy at 65
11.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
139.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
213.2
Deaths
9,287,486
Deaths per 1,000 people
17.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
353
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
352
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1970's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0152.31157.2548.049.1
1-424.6020.7654.656.2
5-95.144.2456.156.9
10-142.962.1552.553.0
15-194.483.3048.248.6
20-245.574.2744.344.4
25-296.304.8440.440.3
30-346.835.4136.636.2
35-397.766.8632.832.1
40-448.728.9129.028.1
45-4910.8112.1025.224.3
50-5414.8816.9521.520.7
55-5921.2124.1617.917.3
60-6431.6435.5414.614.1
65-6946.7850.8411.711.4
70-7470.6473.759.19.0
75-79107.72110.237.06.9
80-84157.45157.795.35.3
85-89225.11225.914.04.0
90-94312.58318.973.03.0
95-99417.49429.672.32.3
100+535.30552.911.91.8