Mortality in Jamaica, 1955

Jamaica
1955
Life expectancy: 60.4
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   1955  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Jamaica was 60.4 years in 1955: 62.0 for women and 58.8 for men, a gap of 3.2 years. 15,691 people died; 25.1% of them were 65 or older and 37.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
60.4
Women
62.0
Men
58.8
Life expectancy at 65
13.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
80.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
106.5
Deaths
15,691
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
270
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
222
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1955'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
078.1292.4262.058.8
1-46.917.4765.963.3
5-91.972.1263.761.2
10-141.401.4959.356.8
15-191.882.2254.752.2
20-242.393.1150.247.8
25-292.823.3945.843.5
30-343.383.9041.439.2
35-394.224.8937.134.9
40-445.376.4032.830.7
45-496.928.7328.626.6
50-549.6612.5324.522.7
55-5913.6017.7920.619.0
60-6421.0326.8516.915.5
65-6933.0640.7313.512.4
70-7453.9563.5610.49.6
75-7986.0898.797.97.3
80-84134.56151.185.95.4
85-89204.75225.084.34.0
90-94294.70317.503.23.0
95-99407.36430.002.42.3
100+537.32554.021.91.8