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

Saint Lucia

1998

Life expectancy: 70.7

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Saint Lucia was 70.7 years in 1998: 72.0 for women and 69.2 for men, a gap of 2.8 years. 931 people died; 57.5% of them were 65 or older and 6.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1998

Life expectancy at birth

70.7

Women

72.0

Men

69.2

Life expectancy at 65

14.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

15.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

18.5

Deaths

931

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.0

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

192

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

166

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1998

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	14.12	17.15	72.0	69.2
1-4	0.71	0.83	72.0	69.4
5-9	0.56	0.44	68.2	65.6
10-14	0.57	0.42	63.4	60.7
15-19	1.22	1.14	58.6	55.9
20-24	1.50	1.64	53.9	51.2
25-29	1.69	1.66	49.3	46.6
30-34	2.06	1.90	44.7	41.9
35-39	2.71	2.53	40.1	37.3
40-44	3.67	3.72	35.6	32.7
45-49	5.26	5.86	31.3	28.3
50-54	7.44	9.34	27.0	24.1
55-59	10.82	14.82	22.9	20.1
60-64	15.71	23.42	19.1	16.4
65-69	24.28	36.45	15.4	13.2
70-74	39.23	56.46	12.1	10.3
75-79	65.24	87.91	9.2	7.8
80-84	107.88	135.49	6.7	5.8
85-89	172.54	206.79	4.9	4.3
90-94	262.19	302.23	3.5	3.1
95-99	377.79	417.52	2.6	2.3
100+	520.86	549.51	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Saint Lucia by year

Mortality in Saint Lucia, 1998

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