Mortality in Oceania, 1950

Oceania
1950
Life expectancy: 61.6
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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Life expectancy at birth in Oceania was 61.6 years in 1950: 64.5 for women and 59.0 for men, a gap of 5.5 years. 146,516 people died; 42.1% of them were 65 or older and 21.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
61.6
Women
64.5
Men
59.0
Life expectancy at 65
13.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
62.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
92.6
Deaths
146,516
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
274
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
188
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950'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
059.9671.8364.559.0
1-47.758.4167.462.3
5-92.252.6765.460.4
10-141.651.8461.256.2
15-192.292.9356.651.7
20-242.604.1952.347.4
25-292.613.7547.943.3
30-342.804.0543.539.1
35-393.274.5539.134.9
40-444.135.6934.730.6
45-495.487.9530.426.4
50-547.5712.1726.122.4
55-5910.9218.5122.018.6
60-6416.9828.6018.115.2
65-6927.5943.4314.512.1
70-7445.2067.1011.39.4
75-7976.52103.498.57.2
80-84117.59146.896.35.5
85-89194.98230.824.54.0
90-94283.61299.143.33.2
95-99400.44409.582.42.4
100+530.67526.121.91.9