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

Saudi Arabia

1997

Life expectancy: 71.6

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

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-5 -1 1997 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Saudi Arabia was 71.6 years in 1997: 73.4 for women and 70.1 for men, a gap of 3.3 years. 50,181 people died; 32.2% of them were 65 or older and 23.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1997

Life expectancy at birth

71.6

Women

73.4

Men

70.1

Life expectancy at 65

14.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

21.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

26.9

Deaths

50,181

Deaths per 1,000 people

3.5

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

156

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

114

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1997's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1997

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	20.95	23.51	73.4	70.1
1-4	1.32	1.27	74.0	70.8
5-9	0.48	0.55	70.4	67.1
10-14	0.32	0.41	65.5	62.3
15-19	0.57	1.00	60.6	57.4
20-24	0.69	1.28	55.8	52.7
25-29	0.82	1.21	51.0	48.0
30-34	1.09	1.35	46.2	43.3
35-39	1.56	1.81	41.4	38.6
40-44	2.32	2.73	36.7	33.9
45-49	3.57	4.46	32.1	29.3
50-54	5.42	7.51	27.6	24.9
55-59	8.20	12.49	23.3	20.8
60-64	13.43	20.38	19.2	17.0
65-69	22.71	32.77	15.3	13.5
70-74	38.78	53.00	11.9	10.5
75-79	67.74	85.47	8.9	7.9
80-84	114.30	135.24	6.5	5.8
85-89	184.59	210.51	4.6	4.2
90-94	279.15	308.56	3.3	3.1
95-99	398.53	425.18	2.4	2.3
100+	537.09	557.01	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Saudi Arabia by year

Mortality in Saudi Arabia, 1997

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