Life expectancy at birth in Paraguay was 58.6 years in 1954: 61.2 for women and 56.1 for men, a gap of 5.2 years. 18,838 people died; 29.4% of them were 65 or older and 37.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

58.6

Women

61.2

Men

56.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

75.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

100.6

Deaths

18,838

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.5

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

334

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

243

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	71.54	87.64	61.3	56.1
1-4	6.46	7.35	64.7	60.1
5-9	2.08	2.51	62.4	57.8
10-14	1.49	1.77	58.0	53.5
15-19	2.24	3.14	53.4	49.0
20-24	2.78	4.49	49.0	44.7
25-29	3.19	4.49	44.6	40.7
30-34	3.80	4.95	40.3	36.6
35-39	4.71	6.14	36.0	32.4
40-44	5.93	8.09	31.8	28.3
45-49	7.63	11.15	27.7	24.4
50-54	10.50	15.89	23.7	20.6
55-59	14.80	22.81	19.8	17.1
60-64	22.92	34.41	16.1	13.9
65-69	36.07	51.35	12.8	11.0
70-74	60.04	78.47	9.8	8.5
75-79	96.65	118.42	7.4	6.5
80-84	149.25	175.89	5.5	4.9
85-89	222.03	255.36	4.1	3.6
90-94	310.15	349.04	3.1	2.8
95-99	416.99	460.50	2.3	2.1
100+	536.68	578.74	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Paraguay by year

Mortality in Paraguay, 1954

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