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

Saudi Arabia

1999

Life expectancy: 72.3

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Saudi Arabia was 72.3 years in 1999: 74.0 for women and 70.8 for men, a gap of 3.2 years. 51,492 people died; 34.6% of them were 65 or older and 20.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1999

Life expectancy at birth

72.3

Women

74.0

Men

70.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

19.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

23.6

Deaths

51,492

Deaths per 1,000 people

3.3

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

146

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

109

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1999's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1999

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	18.49	20.66	74.1	70.9
1-4	1.14	1.09	74.4	71.3
5-9	0.43	0.48	70.8	67.6
10-14	0.29	0.37	65.9	62.8
15-19	0.54	0.93	61.0	57.9
20-24	0.65	1.18	56.2	53.1
25-29	0.77	1.11	51.3	48.4
30-34	1.02	1.24	46.5	43.7
35-39	1.46	1.66	41.7	39.0
40-44	2.19	2.52	37.0	34.3
45-49	3.39	4.14	32.4	29.7
50-54	5.15	6.98	27.9	25.2
55-59	7.82	11.69	23.6	21.0
60-64	12.85	19.41	19.4	17.1
65-69	21.90	31.76	15.5	13.6
70-74	37.67	52.04	12.0	10.5
75-79	66.13	84.61	9.0	7.9
80-84	112.39	134.95	6.5	5.8
85-89	182.82	211.58	4.6	4.2
90-94	278.38	311.83	3.3	3.0
95-99	399.35	430.17	2.4	2.3
100+	539.78	563.63	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Saudi Arabia by year

Mortality in Saudi Arabia, 1999

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