Mortality in India, 2021

India
2021
Life expectancy: 67.3
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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Life expectancy at birth in India was 67.3 years in 2021: 68.8 for women and 65.9 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 13,093,785 people died; 54.0% of them were 65 or older and 5.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 65-69. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
67.3
Women
68.8
Men
65.9
Life expectancy at 65
12.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
25.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
30.8
Deaths
13,093,785
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
252
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
184
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2021'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
025.7025.7668.865.9
1-41.591.3469.666.6
5-90.460.5366.062.9
10-140.410.4061.258.1
15-190.630.7356.353.2
20-240.801.0951.548.4
25-291.271.6646.743.6
30-341.512.3942.039.0
35-392.113.7337.334.4
40-443.385.7132.630.0
45-495.178.2928.125.8
50-549.3112.7623.821.8
55-5916.5421.5119.818.0
60-6424.4931.0516.314.8
65-6938.7947.6113.111.9
70-7459.4671.1410.39.4
75-7988.69101.528.17.4
80-84126.02145.516.25.7
85-89176.21199.604.74.3
90-94276.29300.963.33.1
95-99432.94466.922.22.1
100+690.94758.041.51.3