Life expectancy at birth in Peru was 66.5 years in 1994: 68.4 for women and 64.8 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 155,318 people died; 37.6% of them were 65 or older and 26.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1994

Life expectancy at birth

66.5

Women

68.4

Men

64.8

Life expectancy at 65

13.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

45.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

61.7

Deaths

155,318

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.5

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

201

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

152

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1994's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1994

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	43.85	50.93	68.4	64.8
1-4	4.19	4.30	70.4	67.1
5-9	0.86	1.10	67.6	64.2
10-14	0.63	0.88	62.9	59.6
15-19	0.93	1.63	58.1	54.8
20-24	1.15	2.09	53.3	50.2
25-29	1.36	1.95	48.6	45.7
30-34	1.74	2.10	43.9	41.2
35-39	2.37	2.70	39.3	36.6
40-44	3.32	3.83	34.7	32.0
45-49	4.74	5.91	30.3	27.6
50-54	6.98	9.42	25.9	23.4
55-59	10.27	15.12	21.8	19.4
60-64	16.70	24.45	17.8	15.7
65-69	27.67	39.13	14.1	12.4
70-74	48.39	62.93	10.8	9.5
75-79	82.09	100.08	8.0	7.1
80-84	131.12	156.23	5.9	5.2
85-89	204.21	247.85	4.2	3.6
90-94	321.42	384.11	2.9	2.5
95-99	473.99	551.98	2.1	1.8
100+	632.99	709.27	1.6	1.4

Mortality in Peru by year

Mortality in Peru, 1994

Year

Country