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

Kuwait

1972

Life expectancy: 68.9

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Kuwait was 68.9 years in 1972: 71.2 for women and 67.2 for men, a gap of 4.0 years. 4,475 people died; 21.7% of them were 65 or older and 51.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1972

Life expectancy at birth

68.9

Women

71.2

Men

67.2

Life expectancy at 65

13.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

49.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

61.8

Deaths

4,475

Deaths per 1,000 people

4.9

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

154

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1972's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1972

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	48.01	55.88	71.2	67.2
1-4	3.09	3.19	73.6	70.0
5-9	0.37	0.76	70.5	66.8
10-14	0.26	0.41	65.6	62.1
15-19	0.48	0.92	60.7	57.2
20-24	0.61	1.19	55.9	52.5
25-29	0.79	1.22	51.0	47.8
30-34	0.95	1.35	46.2	43.0
35-39	1.30	1.79	41.4	38.3
40-44	1.88	2.69	36.7	33.6
45-49	2.95	4.47	32.0	29.1
50-54	4.55	7.42	27.4	24.6
55-59	7.02	12.34	23.0	20.5
60-64	11.43	19.97	18.7	16.6
65-69	21.18	32.89	14.7	13.1
70-74	42.76	56.18	11.0	10.0
75-79	81.23	93.55	8.0	7.4
80-84	135.67	150.20	5.8	5.4
85-89	208.01	235.20	4.3	3.8
90-94	295.77	337.98	3.2	2.8
95-99	402.83	454.59	2.4	2.2
100+	525.40	582.82	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Kuwait by year

Mortality in Kuwait, 1972

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