Life expectancy at birth in Lao People's Democratic Republic was 40.6 years in 1956: 41.5 for women and 39.7 for men, a gap of 1.8 years. 44,441 people died; 8.7% of them were 65 or older and 57.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

40.6

Women

41.5

Men

39.7

Life expectancy at 65

10.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

193.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

290.4

Deaths

44,441

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.9

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

460

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

432

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	201.95	242.22	41.5	39.7
1-4	32.26	32.98	49.4	49.0
5-9	5.90	5.17	51.9	51.6
10-14	4.68	3.64	48.4	47.9
15-19	6.22	5.14	44.5	43.8
20-24	7.87	7.37	40.8	39.8
25-29	8.84	8.09	37.3	36.2
30-34	10.04	9.28	33.9	32.6
35-39	11.16	11.09	30.5	29.0
40-44	12.31	13.75	27.1	25.6
45-49	13.90	16.78	23.7	22.2
50-54	18.38	22.25	20.2	18.9
55-59	24.27	29.27	16.9	15.8
60-64	36.21	41.66	13.8	12.9
65-69	51.41	58.78	11.0	10.4
70-74	78.48	85.89	8.5	8.1
75-79	118.88	129.21	6.4	6.1
80-84	178.67	189.91	4.8	4.5
85-89	255.64	276.36	3.6	3.3
90-94	367.85	402.13	2.6	2.4
95-99	485.81	532.27	2.0	1.9
100+	613.20	664.32	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Lao People's Democratic Republic by year

Mortality in Lao People's Democratic Republic, 1956

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