Life expectancy at birth in Portugal was 66.1 years in 1965: 69.1 for women and 62.9 for men, a gap of 6.2 years. 93,685 people died; 53.9% of them were 65 or older and 18.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1965

Life expectancy at birth

66.1

Women

69.1

Men

62.9

Life expectancy at 65

13.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

82.4

Deaths

93,685

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.5

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

214

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

115

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1965's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1965

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	60.64	73.74	69.1	62.9
1-4	4.77	5.12	72.4	66.7
5-9	0.90	1.11	69.8	64.0
10-14	0.48	0.73	65.1	59.4
15-19	0.63	1.23	60.2	54.6
20-24	0.68	1.56	55.4	49.9
25-29	1.03	1.77	50.6	45.2
30-34	1.35	2.42	45.8	40.6
35-39	1.74	3.39	41.1	36.1
40-44	2.48	4.71	36.4	31.7
45-49	3.51	6.79	31.9	27.4
50-54	4.90	10.17	27.4	23.2
55-59	8.02	15.92	23.0	19.3
60-64	12.48	24.03	18.8	15.7
65-69	23.01	39.25	14.9	12.3
70-74	42.64	63.01	11.4	9.5
75-79	76.56	103.37	8.5	7.0
80-84	120.28	156.24	6.3	5.2
85-89	191.58	238.57	4.5	3.7
90-94	279.38	366.05	3.3	2.6
95-99	384.95	483.09	2.5	2.0
100+	510.36	620.08	2.0	1.6

Mortality in Portugal by year

Mortality in Portugal, 1965

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