Mortality in Peru, 2020

Peru
2020
Life expectancy: 73.8
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Peru was 73.8 years in 2020: 78.0 for women and 70.4 for men, a gap of 7.6 years. 243,510 people died; 62.3% of them were 65 or older and 3.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
73.8
Women
78.0
Men
70.4
Life expectancy at 65
16.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
12.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
15.7
Deaths
243,510
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
196
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
108
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2020's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
011.0213.9178.070.4
1-40.820.8877.870.4
5-90.280.3074.166.6
10-140.320.3669.261.7
15-190.450.6864.356.8
20-240.581.2059.452.0
25-290.681.4954.647.3
30-340.931.8849.842.6
35-391.382.7545.038.0
40-442.254.0740.333.5
45-493.226.0735.729.1
50-545.229.8931.325.0
55-598.1615.6427.021.1
60-6412.5623.8223.017.6
65-6918.4434.4719.414.5
70-7426.8348.8816.011.8
75-7939.5169.8212.99.3
80-8459.45103.9410.27.2
85-8990.61152.917.85.5
90-94134.38209.186.04.3
95-99194.26279.044.53.4
100+291.78373.273.42.7