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

Singapore

1953

Life expectancy: 57.5

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

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Singapore was 57.5 years in 1953: 62.6 for women and 53.6 for men, a gap of 9.0 years. 12,052 people died; 17.6% of them were 65 or older and 38.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

57.5

Women

62.6

Men

53.6

Life expectancy at 65

11.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

69.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

94.0

Deaths

12,052

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.1

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

441

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

245

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	66.52	79.37	62.6	53.6
1-4	6.43	6.95	65.8	56.9
5-9	1.98	1.86	63.5	54.5
10-14	0.84	1.17	59.1	50.0
15-19	1.35	1.83	54.3	45.3
20-24	2.08	2.62	49.7	40.7
25-29	2.53	3.15	45.2	36.2
30-34	2.90	3.85	40.7	31.7
35-39	3.63	5.25	36.3	27.3
40-44	6.13	9.16	31.9	22.9
45-49	8.10	13.93	27.8	18.9
50-54	12.52	26.59	23.8	15.0
55-59	16.78	48.95	20.2	11.8
60-64	30.91	89.75	16.7	9.4
65-69	35.40	84.64	14.1	8.3
70-74	53.25	117.26	11.4	6.5
75-79	76.27	181.73	9.1	4.8
80-84	107.11	246.39	7.2	3.8
85-89	148.46	323.98	5.7	3.0
90-94	202.07	411.69	4.4	2.4
95-99	269.39	506.89	3.5	2.0
100+	361.23	604.45	2.8	1.7

Mortality in Singapore by year

Mortality in Singapore, 1953

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