Mortality in Portugal, 2021

Portugal
2021
Life expectancy: 81.4
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 Portugal was 81.4 years in 2021: 84.3 for women and 78.4 for men, a gap of 5.8 years. 122,738 people died; 86.1% of them were 65 or older and 0.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 85-89. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
81.4
Women
84.3
Men
78.4
Life expectancy at 65
20.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
2.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
3.0
Deaths
122,738
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
100
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
45
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2021'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
02.302.4584.378.4
1-40.130.1883.477.6
5-90.100.0979.573.7
10-140.060.1574.568.7
15-190.130.3169.663.7
20-240.180.4664.658.8
25-290.220.5559.754.0
30-340.430.7954.749.1
35-390.600.9949.844.3
40-440.931.5845.039.5
45-491.422.9940.234.8
50-542.065.2635.430.3
55-593.158.2230.826.0
60-644.8412.2726.222.0
65-697.2417.5421.818.2
70-7412.0524.7417.514.6
75-7923.7540.8313.411.2
80-8449.0070.869.88.2
85-8999.07134.626.85.6
90-94181.05232.734.63.8
95-99305.86370.293.02.6
100+476.28539.172.11.9