Life expectancy at birth in Poland was 61.3 years in 1953: 64.0 for women and 58.5 for men, a gap of 5.5 years. 286,516 people died; 37.9% of them were 65 or older and 28.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

61.3

Women

64.0

Men

58.5

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

89.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

104.2

Deaths

286,516

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.0

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

269

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

178

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	84.30	105.52	64.0	58.5
1-4	4.03	4.28	68.5	63.8
5-9	1.18	1.48	65.6	60.9
10-14	0.77	1.19	61.0	56.4
15-19	1.19	1.85	56.2	51.7
20-24	1.88	2.96	51.5	47.1
25-29	2.07	2.89	47.0	42.8
30-34	2.42	3.33	42.4	38.4
35-39	2.88	3.90	37.9	34.0
40-44	3.67	5.59	33.4	29.6
45-49	5.08	7.99	29.0	25.4
50-54	7.73	13.00	24.7	21.3
55-59	12.23	20.92	20.5	17.5
60-64	18.67	30.22	16.7	14.2
65-69	34.44	50.36	13.0	11.1
70-74	56.99	77.94	10.0	8.6
75-79	92.66	118.49	7.5	6.5
80-84	146.64	175.59	5.5	4.9
85-89	223.39	251.55	4.0	3.7
90-94	323.89	345.64	2.9	2.8
95-99	443.16	453.44	2.2	2.2
100+	574.48	570.61	1.7	1.8

Mortality in Poland by year

Mortality in Poland, 1953

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