Puerto Rico Mortality 1960: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Puerto Rico

1960

Life expectancy: 68.6

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1960 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Puerto Rico was 68.6 years in 1960: 71.0 for women and 66.4 for men, a gap of 4.6 years. 15,823 people died; 41.2% of them were 65 or older and 23.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1960

Life expectancy at birth

68.6

Women

71.0

Men

66.4

Life expectancy at 65

15.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

40.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

49.9

Deaths

15,823

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.7

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

225

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

137

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1960

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	38.68	43.93	71.0	66.4
1-4	2.76	2.47	72.8	68.3
5-9	0.66	0.71	69.6	65.0
10-14	0.45	0.61	64.8	60.2
15-19	0.73	1.54	59.9	55.4
20-24	1.07	2.67	55.1	50.8
25-29	1.34	3.04	50.4	46.4
30-34	1.69	3.51	45.7	42.1
35-39	2.34	4.30	41.1	37.8
40-44	2.94	5.30	36.6	33.6
45-49	4.18	6.92	32.1	29.4
50-54	6.20	9.83	27.7	25.3
55-59	9.05	13.81	23.5	21.5
60-64	14.20	20.17	19.4	17.8
65-69	22.03	29.80	15.7	14.4
70-74	36.42	45.29	12.2	11.4
75-79	64.67	70.59	9.1	8.6
80-84	110.23	122.13	6.7	6.2
85-89	173.44	191.63	4.8	4.5
90-94	264.96	289.62	3.5	3.2
95-99	382.91	419.46	2.5	2.3
100+	522.38	563.54	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Puerto Rico by year

Mortality in Puerto Rico, 1960

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