Saudi Arabia

2001

Life expectancy: 73.0

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Saudi Arabia was 73.0 years in 2001: 74.7 for women and 71.5 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 52,873 people died; 36.8% of them were 65 or older and 17.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2001

Life expectancy at birth

73.0

Women

74.7

Men

71.5

Life expectancy at 65

14.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

17.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

20.9

Deaths

52,873

Deaths per 1,000 people

3.1

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

137

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

103

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2001's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2001

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	16.40	18.26	74.7	71.6
1-4	1.00	0.95	74.9	71.9
5-9	0.39	0.43	71.2	68.1
10-14	0.27	0.34	66.3	63.3
15-19	0.50	0.87	61.4	58.4
20-24	0.61	1.11	56.6	53.6
25-29	0.72	1.04	51.7	48.9
30-34	0.95	1.16	46.9	44.1
35-39	1.37	1.54	42.1	39.4
40-44	2.07	2.33	37.4	34.7
45-49	3.21	3.86	32.8	30.0
50-54	4.90	6.51	28.2	25.6
55-59	7.45	10.97	23.9	21.3
60-64	12.27	18.46	19.7	17.4
65-69	20.94	30.49	15.8	13.8
70-74	36.14	50.37	12.2	10.7
75-79	63.72	82.53	9.1	8.0
80-84	109.10	132.69	6.6	5.8
85-89	178.66	209.59	4.7	4.2
90-94	273.82	310.64	3.4	3.0
95-99	394.43	428.86	2.5	2.3
100+	535.73	563.03	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Saudi Arabia by year

Mortality in Saudi Arabia, 2001

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