Life expectancy at birth in Pakistan was 60.6 years in 1997: 61.6 for women and 59.9 for men, a gap of 1.7 years. 1,376,503 people died; 24.3% of them were 65 or older and 46.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1997

Life expectancy at birth

60.6

Women

61.6

Men

59.9

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

92.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

117.9

Deaths

1,376,503

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.7

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

233

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

211

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1997's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1997

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	93.91	103.93	61.6	59.9
1-4	7.15	6.96	66.5	65.3
5-9	1.45	1.38	64.4	63.1
10-14	1.19	1.00	59.8	58.5
15-19	1.77	1.71	55.2	53.8
20-24	2.38	2.44	50.6	49.2
25-29	2.76	2.50	46.2	44.8
30-34	3.22	2.80	41.8	40.3
35-39	3.86	3.57	37.4	35.8
40-44	4.81	4.93	33.1	31.4
45-49	6.40	7.24	28.9	27.1
50-54	9.07	10.94	24.7	23.1
55-59	13.05	16.81	20.7	19.2
60-64	20.21	25.79	17.0	15.7
65-69	32.00	39.61	13.5	12.5
70-74	52.61	61.91	10.4	9.6
75-79	86.08	97.48	7.8	7.2
80-84	140.07	152.96	5.7	5.3
85-89	215.01	236.44	4.1	3.8
90-94	330.63	364.48	2.9	2.6
95-99	459.83	504.76	2.1	2.0
100+	607.64	654.84	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Pakistan by year

Mortality in Pakistan, 1997

Year

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