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

Southern Asia

1956

Life expectancy: 43.3

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Southern Asia was 43.3 years in 1956: 42.6 for women and 43.9 for men, a gap of -1.4 years. 11,417,264 people died; 12.9% of them were 65 or older and 54.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

43.3

Women

42.6

Men

43.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

168.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

267.7

Deaths

11,417,264

Deaths per 1,000 people

21.5

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

403

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

407

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

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	186.01	194.99	42.6	43.9
1-4	35.13	30.04	49.9	52.0
5-9	5.64	4.40	53.1	54.3
10-14	4.22	2.80	49.5	50.5
15-19	5.90	4.37	45.5	46.1
20-24	7.08	5.86	41.8	42.1
25-29	8.13	6.65	38.2	38.3
30-34	9.07	7.39	34.7	34.5
35-39	10.23	8.99	31.2	30.7
40-44	11.11	11.04	27.7	27.0
45-49	13.00	14.08	24.2	23.4
50-54	16.92	18.77	20.6	19.9
55-59	23.07	25.81	17.2	16.6
60-64	34.33	37.31	14.0	13.5
65-69	49.77	53.76	11.2	10.8
70-74	75.71	79.56	8.6	8.4
75-79	118.35	122.57	6.5	6.3
80-84	177.58	183.76	4.8	4.7
85-89	254.58	269.42	3.6	3.4
90-94	358.27	386.31	2.7	2.5
95-99	482.89	516.30	2.0	1.9
100+	618.70	653.68	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Southern Asia by year

Mortality in Southern Asia, 1956

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