Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Mortality in Iraq, 1953

Iraq
1953
Life expectancy: 42.1
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1953  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Iraq was 42.1 years in 1953: 45.6 for women and 38.9 for men, a gap of 6.7 years. 140,516 people died; 9.7% of them were 65 or older and 59.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
42.1
Women
45.6
Men
38.9
Life expectancy at 65
11.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
182.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
297.5
Deaths
140,516
Deaths per 1,000 people
23.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
479
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
312
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953'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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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0194.51221.7445.638.9
1-438.3639.2754.147.1
5-93.165.5058.650.7
10-142.663.8954.547.1
15-193.605.4850.243.0
20-244.707.8446.139.1
25-295.348.6342.135.5
30-346.079.9138.232.0
35-396.8911.8334.328.5
40-447.9114.6230.425.1
45-499.5017.7426.521.8
50-5412.9223.3922.718.6
55-5917.7030.5419.015.5
60-6426.7943.3015.512.7
65-6940.0260.7912.410.2
70-7463.2488.469.67.9
75-7999.42132.727.26.0
80-84155.21194.255.34.5
85-89230.04281.453.93.3
90-94342.41407.802.82.4
95-99464.85537.742.11.8
100+602.63668.631.71.5