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

Singapore

1957

Life expectancy: 63.4

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

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-5 -1 1957 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Singapore was 63.4 years in 1957: 67.0 for women and 60.4 for men, a gap of 6.6 years. 10,466 people died; 21.0% of them were 65 or older and 34.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

63.4

Women

67.0

Men

60.4

Life expectancy at 65

12.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

47.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

61.5

Deaths

10,466

Deaths per 1,000 people

7.2

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

298

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

199

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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	44.45	54.04	67.0	60.4
1-4	3.54	3.89	69.0	62.7
5-9	1.20	1.27	65.9	59.6
10-14	0.70	1.00	61.3	55.0
15-19	0.89	1.23	56.5	50.3
20-24	1.26	1.59	51.8	45.6
25-29	1.58	1.74	47.1	40.9
30-34	2.17	2.51	42.4	36.2
35-39	3.06	4.00	37.9	31.7
40-44	4.73	6.11	33.4	27.2
45-49	6.46	10.15	29.2	23.0
50-54	9.38	17.07	25.0	19.1
55-59	14.71	26.23	21.1	15.5
60-64	21.49	44.31	17.5	12.4
65-69	33.13	64.47	14.2	9.8
70-74	50.87	93.21	11.3	7.6
75-79	75.53	143.29	8.9	5.7
80-84	111.82	207.79	6.8	4.3
85-89	162.43	291.52	5.2	3.2
90-94	230.15	390.65	4.0	2.5
95-99	313.85	499.94	3.0	2.0
100+	422.07	613.01	2.4	1.6

Mortality in Singapore by year

Mortality in Singapore, 1957

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