Mortality in Pakistan, 1959

Pakistan
1959
Life expectancy: 43.3
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   1959  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Pakistan was 43.3 years in 1959: 41.2 for women and 45.2 for men, a gap of -3.9 years. 916,299 people died; 8.9% of them were 65 or older and 57.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
43.3
Women
41.2
Men
45.2
Life expectancy at 65
11.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
180.1
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
261.7
Deaths
916,299
Deaths per 1,000 people
20.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
374
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
459
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.
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
0197.57211.6441.245.2
1-427.8325.4148.954.4
5-96.603.5650.455.9
10-145.142.4647.151.9
15-196.883.7043.247.5
20-248.695.3039.643.3
25-299.755.7536.339.4
30-3411.076.5633.035.5
35-3912.277.9329.731.6
40-4413.4510.0226.427.8
45-4915.0212.7823.124.1
50-5419.7717.4719.720.5
55-5925.9323.9816.517.1
60-6438.6234.8913.414.0
65-6954.2650.5010.711.2
70-7482.2575.398.38.7
75-79123.55115.016.36.6
80-84184.16172.624.74.9
85-89261.19256.263.53.6
90-94372.60380.212.62.5
95-99487.98510.902.01.9
100+611.47647.671.61.5