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

South Africa

1962

Life expectancy: 53.6

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

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-5 -1 1962 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in South Africa was 53.6 years in 1962: 55.7 for women and 51.7 for men, a gap of 4.0 years. 235,424 people died; 18.6% of them were 65 or older and 40.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1962

Life expectancy at birth

53.6

Women

55.7

Men

51.7

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

95.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

142.6

Deaths

235,424

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.5

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

397

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

307

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1962's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1962

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	95.78	109.54	55.7	51.7
1-4	13.19	13.52	60.2	56.5
5-9	3.44	3.59	59.3	55.6
10-14	2.36	2.44	55.3	51.5
15-19	3.04	3.47	50.9	47.1
20-24	4.07	5.22	46.7	42.9
25-29	5.00	6.25	42.6	39.0
30-34	5.88	7.52	38.6	35.1
35-39	6.99	9.35	34.7	31.4
40-44	8.26	11.51	30.8	27.8
45-49	9.83	14.39	27.0	24.3
50-54	12.88	18.78	23.2	20.9
55-59	17.24	24.41	19.6	17.7
60-64	25.74	34.67	16.1	14.7
65-69	39.47	50.35	13.0	12.0
70-74	59.60	71.68	10.3	9.7
75-79	84.60	93.13	8.0	7.8
80-84	131.06	133.91	6.0	6.0
85-89	197.17	185.87	4.4	4.6
90-94	302.70	268.33	3.1	3.4
95-99	451.23	384.08	2.2	2.5
100+	606.50	514.91	1.7	1.9

Mortality in South Africa by year

Mortality in South Africa, 1962

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