Mortality in Mauritius, 1959

Mauritius
1959
Life expectancy: 57.4
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.
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Life expectancy at birth in Mauritius was 57.4 years in 1959: 59.4 for women and 55.7 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 7,054 people died; 24.6% of them were 65 or older and 35.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
57.4
Women
59.4
Men
55.7
Life expectancy at 65
10.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
62.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
99.2
Deaths
7,054
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
373
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
277
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1959'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
059.3472.6859.455.7
1-410.839.0562.058.8
5-92.091.4160.656.9
10-140.950.8356.352.3
15-192.341.3751.547.5
20-244.172.2647.142.8
25-294.752.3443.038.3
30-345.163.5339.033.7
35-395.935.4134.929.2
40-446.267.7530.925.0
45-497.1313.8626.820.9
50-5411.8822.4922.717.2
55-5917.1934.1018.913.9
60-6424.9352.4815.411.0
65-6939.9977.8612.18.6
70-7467.91117.799.26.5
75-79106.59172.727.04.9
80-84152.85256.315.23.5
85-89247.75392.253.62.5
90-94386.24586.442.51.7
95-99568.00803.191.71.2
100+729.87916.091.41.1