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

Iraq

1979

Life expectancy: 64.4

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Life expectancy at birth in Iraq was 64.4 years in 1979: 67.3 for women and 61.5 for men, a gap of 5.8 years. 111,054 people died; 33.8% of them were 65 or older and 36.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1979

Life expectancy at birth

64.4

Women

67.3

Men

61.5

Life expectancy at 65

13.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

59.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

75.4

Deaths

111,054

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.4

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

258

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

159

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1979's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1979

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	57.21	66.88	67.3	61.5
1-4	4.25	4.44	70.2	64.7
5-9	0.75	1.60	67.4	61.8
10-14	0.64	1.24	62.6	57.3
15-19	0.99	2.02	57.8	52.6
20-24	1.39	2.89	53.1	48.1
25-29	1.65	3.01	48.5	43.8
30-34	1.98	3.39	43.8	39.4
35-39	2.51	4.24	39.3	35.1
40-44	3.38	5.73	34.7	30.8
45-49	4.86	8.14	30.3	26.6
50-54	7.15	12.02	25.9	22.6
55-59	10.67	18.04	21.8	18.8
60-64	16.84	27.38	17.8	15.3
65-69	27.72	41.55	14.2	12.2
70-74	46.86	64.35	10.9	9.5
75-79	78.72	100.69	8.1	7.1
80-84	131.85	156.61	5.9	5.2
85-89	206.74	240.20	4.2	3.7
90-94	325.71	367.64	2.9	2.6
95-99	459.54	506.36	2.1	2.0
100+	612.26	654.37	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Iraq by year

Mortality in Iraq, 1979

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