Life expectancy at birth in Less developed regions, excluding China was 48.8 years in 1966: 49.9 for women and 47.8 for men, a gap of 2.1 years. 28,346,524 people died; 15.5% of them were 65 or older and 50.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

48.8

Women

49.9

Men

47.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

131.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

205.3

Deaths

28,346,524

Deaths per 1,000 people

17.0

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

379

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

328

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

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	136.84	151.80	49.9	47.8
1-4	23.02	22.09	56.0	54.4
5-9	4.91	4.85	57.2	55.2
10-14	3.09	2.86	53.6	51.5
15-19	4.05	4.01	49.4	47.2
20-24	5.00	5.56	45.3	43.1
25-29	5.73	6.06	41.4	39.2
30-34	6.49	6.70	37.6	35.4
35-39	7.45	8.09	33.7	31.5
40-44	8.49	10.08	29.9	27.7
45-49	10.21	13.01	26.1	24.0
50-54	13.47	17.54	22.3	20.4
55-59	18.61	24.21	18.7	17.1
60-64	27.87	35.12	15.3	13.9
65-69	42.06	51.19	12.2	11.1
70-74	65.49	76.51	9.4	8.6
75-79	102.30	116.12	7.1	6.5
80-84	156.13	174.91	5.3	4.9
85-89	229.15	255.60	3.9	3.6
90-94	320.43	356.46	3.0	2.7
95-99	432.03	471.78	2.3	2.1
100+	577.87	613.31	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Less developed regions, excluding China by year

Mortality in Less developed regions, excluding China, 1966

Year

Country