Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Romania

1996

Life expectancy: 68.8

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

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-5 -1 1996 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Romania was 68.8 years in 1996: 72.7 for women and 65.1 for men, a gap of 7.6 years. 289,864 people died; 65.9% of them were 65 or older and 2.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1996

Life expectancy at birth

68.8

Women

72.7

Men

65.1

Life expectancy at 65

13.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

22.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

26.9

Deaths

289,864

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.9

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

287

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

125

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1996's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1996

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	20.30	24.47	72.7	65.1
1-4	1.17	1.33	73.2	65.7
5-9	0.65	1.02	69.5	62.0
10-14	0.33	0.51	64.8	57.3
15-19	0.42	0.91	59.9	52.5
20-24	0.55	1.38	55.0	47.7
25-29	0.67	1.68	50.1	43.0
30-34	1.02	2.72	45.3	38.4
35-39	1.74	4.73	40.5	33.8
40-44	2.79	7.49	35.8	29.6
45-49	4.18	10.89	31.3	25.6
50-54	6.35	15.77	26.9	21.9
55-59	8.96	21.86	22.7	18.5
60-64	14.03	29.85	18.6	15.3
65-69	23.09	41.82	14.8	12.4
70-74	40.10	62.43	11.3	9.7
75-79	72.03	93.68	8.2	7.4
80-84	129.58	149.00	5.7	5.3
85-89	234.50	235.23	3.7	3.8
90-94	418.74	374.13	2.3	2.6
95-99	650.86	549.55	1.5	1.8
100+	828.30	713.62	1.2	1.4

Mortality in Romania by year

Mortality in Romania, 1996

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