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

Mongolia

1978

Life expectancy: 54.9

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

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-5 -1 1978 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Mongolia was 54.9 years in 1978: 56.7 for women and 53.1 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 22,695 people died; 27.9% of them were 65 or older and 42.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

54.9

Women

56.7

Men

53.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

106.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

153.0

Deaths

22,695

Deaths per 1,000 people

14.0

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

314

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

275

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	100.61	129.67	56.7	53.1
1-4	11.82	15.05	61.6	59.3
5-9	2.38	2.27	60.5	58.8
10-14	2.01	1.79	56.2	54.5
15-19	2.89	2.79	51.7	49.9
20-24	3.80	3.98	47.4	45.6
25-29	4.34	4.24	43.3	41.5
30-34	4.98	4.81	39.2	37.3
35-39	5.74	5.91	35.1	33.1
40-44	6.75	7.70	31.1	29.1
45-49	8.36	10.32	27.0	25.1
50-54	11.51	14.62	23.1	21.3
55-59	16.01	20.96	19.3	17.7
60-64	24.39	31.12	15.7	14.4
65-69	38.85	47.58	12.4	11.4
70-74	63.38	73.95	9.5	8.8
75-79	101.73	114.17	7.1	6.6
80-84	155.56	173.89	5.3	4.9
85-89	228.69	257.02	4.0	3.6
90-94	318.47	353.73	3.0	2.7
95-99	427.18	468.23	2.3	2.1
100+	547.38	588.82	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Mongolia by year

Mortality in Mongolia, 1978

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