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

Mexico

1979

Life expectancy: 63.9

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

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-5 -1 1979 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Mexico was 63.9 years in 1979: 67.1 for women and 60.8 for men, a gap of 6.3 years. 467,168 people died; 22.9% of them were 65 or older and 37.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1979

Life expectancy at birth

63.9

Women

67.1

Men

60.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

57.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

74.6

Deaths

467,168

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.1

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

309

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

184

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1979's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1979

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	55.58	65.43	67.1	60.8
1-4	4.36	4.60	69.8	63.8
5-9	0.89	1.18	67.0	61.0
10-14	0.71	1.07	62.3	56.3
15-19	1.10	2.35	57.5	51.6
20-24	1.58	4.01	52.8	47.2
25-29	1.89	4.71	48.2	43.1
30-34	2.36	5.18	43.7	39.1
35-39	3.44	7.07	39.2	35.0
40-44	4.17	7.98	34.8	31.2
45-49	5.94	10.88	30.5	27.4
50-54	8.17	13.21	26.3	23.8
55-59	12.02	18.56	22.3	20.2
60-64	17.02	23.88	18.5	16.9
65-69	28.63	37.66	14.9	13.8
70-74	42.02	51.09	11.8	11.1
75-79	67.87	78.08	9.0	8.6
80-84	110.42	117.58	6.7	6.5
85-89	175.13	174.70	4.9	4.9
90-94	251.41	244.97	3.6	3.7
95-99	356.45	339.68	2.7	2.8
100+	514.32	481.33	1.9	2.1

Mortality in Mexico by year

Mortality in Mexico, 1979

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