Mortality in India, 2005

India
2005
Life expectancy: 64.9
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in India was 64.9 years in 2005: 66.4 for women and 63.6 for men, a gap of 2.8 years. 9,027,957 people died; 37.6% of them were 65 or older and 23.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
64.9
Women
66.4
Men
63.6
Life expectancy at 65
13.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
57.1
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
73.9
Deaths
9,027,957
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
235
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
162
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2005'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
061.0458.5266.463.6
1-45.113.9869.566.4
5-91.711.5366.963.4
10-140.950.9162.458.9
15-191.701.4357.754.1
20-242.151.9953.249.5
25-292.112.4848.745.0
30-342.223.1744.240.5
35-392.484.0939.736.1
40-442.985.1735.231.8
45-494.517.8330.627.6
50-546.6611.2726.323.6
55-5910.5516.1722.119.8
60-6418.2225.6518.116.2
65-6929.4339.5914.613.1
70-7447.1858.3111.510.4
75-7970.2886.108.98.1
80-84112.11128.916.76.2
85-89172.22185.074.94.7
90-94248.91258.873.73.6
95-99348.29348.032.82.8
100+469.35457.882.12.2