Life expectancy at birth in Peru was 48.9 years in 1957: 50.5 for women and 47.4 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 171,526 people died; 14.2% of them were 65 or older and 61.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

48.9

Women

50.5

Men

47.4

Life expectancy at 65

12.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

140.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

245.5

Deaths

171,526

Deaths per 1,000 people

18.4

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

301

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

254

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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	145.61	166.41	50.5	47.4
1-4	32.73	33.64	57.2	54.6
5-9	3.64	4.74	60.8	58.1
10-14	2.25	3.02	56.9	54.5
15-19	2.58	3.76	52.5	50.3
20-24	3.18	4.95	48.2	46.2
25-29	3.67	4.64	43.9	42.3
30-34	4.41	4.82	39.7	38.2
35-39	5.29	5.69	35.5	34.1
40-44	6.49	7.16	31.4	30.0
45-49	7.71	9.35	27.3	26.0
50-54	10.61	13.01	23.3	22.1
55-59	14.67	18.25	19.4	18.4
60-64	24.16	27.85	15.7	14.9
65-69	37.98	42.57	12.4	11.8
70-74	64.15	69.11	9.5	9.0
75-79	101.31	108.93	7.1	6.7
80-84	155.12	171.11	5.2	4.8
85-89	241.55	270.97	3.7	3.4
90-94	380.28	419.14	2.5	2.3
95-99	553.32	598.37	1.8	1.7
100+	714.54	754.15	1.4	1.3

Mortality in Peru by year

Mortality in Peru, 1957

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