Nepal Mortality 1959: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Nepal was 38.4 years in 1959: 38.7 for women and 38.1 for men, a gap of 0.6 years. 247,665 people died; 10.1% of them were 65 or older and 58.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1959

Life expectancy at birth

38.4

Women

38.7

Men

38.1

Life expectancy at 65

10.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

219.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

328.5

Deaths

247,665

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.9

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

467

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

427

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.

Death rate by age, 1959

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	247.79	265.81	38.7	38.1
1-4	40.79	36.53	48.1	48.1
5-9	5.76	5.35	52.1	51.3
10-14	4.68	3.73	48.6	47.6
15-19	6.12	5.27	44.7	43.4
20-24	7.74	7.55	41.0	39.5
25-29	8.70	8.30	37.5	35.9
30-34	9.88	9.52	34.1	32.4
35-39	10.98	11.37	30.7	28.8
40-44	12.13	14.08	27.3	25.4
45-49	13.72	17.16	23.8	22.0
50-54	18.15	22.70	20.3	18.8
55-59	23.98	29.79	17.0	15.7
60-64	35.80	42.34	13.9	12.8
65-69	50.89	59.63	11.1	10.3
70-74	77.75	87.01	8.6	8.0
75-79	117.91	130.78	6.5	6.0
80-84	177.41	191.92	4.8	4.5
85-89	254.12	278.89	3.6	3.3
90-94	366.08	405.15	2.6	2.4
95-99	483.88	535.79	2.0	1.9
100+	611.47	667.56	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Nepal by year

Mortality in Nepal, 1959

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