Mortality in Nepal, 2016

Nepal
2016
Life expectancy: 68.4
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.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Nepal was 68.4 years in 2016: 69.8 for women and 67.1 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 197,511 people died; 50.5% of them were 65 or older and 11.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
68.4
Women
69.8
Men
67.1
Life expectancy at 65
13.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
29.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
36.3
Deaths
197,511
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
200
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
162
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2016'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
027.8032.7769.867.1
1-41.741.7670.768.3
5-90.810.9167.264.8
10-140.630.7562.560.1
15-191.041.3357.755.3
20-241.451.8852.950.6
25-291.721.9048.346.1
30-342.052.1443.741.5
35-392.602.7539.136.9
40-443.473.9434.632.4
45-494.976.0830.228.0
50-547.289.5125.923.8
55-5910.8315.0821.719.8
60-6417.0723.5217.816.2
65-6928.0336.7614.112.8
70-7447.2858.2310.99.9
75-7979.2592.608.17.4
80-84132.46147.245.85.4
85-89207.35230.344.23.8
90-94326.18358.952.92.7
95-99459.69501.232.12.0
100+612.07654.371.61.5