Life expectancy at birth in Peru was 47.5 years in 1954: 49.0 for women and 46.0 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 166,477 people died; 13.3% of them were 65 or older and 62.1% 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

47.5

Women

49.0

Men

46.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

146.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

260.3

Deaths

166,477

Deaths per 1,000 people

19.4

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

313

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

267

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.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	152.39	173.59	49.0	46.0
1-4	36.26	37.00	55.8	53.4
5-9	4.03	5.13	60.1	57.5
10-14	2.48	3.23	56.3	53.9
15-19	2.84	3.97	51.9	49.8
20-24	3.50	5.29	47.6	45.7
25-29	4.02	4.99	43.4	41.9
30-34	4.80	5.18	39.3	37.9
35-39	5.69	6.08	35.2	33.8
40-44	6.89	7.58	31.1	29.8
45-49	8.07	9.79	27.1	25.8
50-54	11.03	13.45	23.1	22.0
55-59	15.16	18.65	19.3	18.3
60-64	24.86	28.30	15.6	14.9
65-69	38.82	43.01	12.3	11.7
70-74	65.17	69.67	9.4	9.0
75-79	102.24	109.50	7.1	6.7
80-84	156.13	171.92	5.2	4.8
85-89	243.13	272.20	3.7	3.4
90-94	382.82	421.01	2.5	2.3
95-99	556.84	600.13	1.8	1.7
100+	718.13	755.63	1.4	1.3

Mortality in Peru by year

Mortality in Peru, 1954

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