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

Mortality in Southern Asia, 1987

Southern Asia
1987
Life expectancy: 57.3
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1987  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Southern Asia was 57.3 years in 1987: 58.0 for women and 56.6 for men, a gap of 1.5 years. 12,978,085 people died; 24.1% of them were 65 or older and 42.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
57.3
Women
58.0
Men
56.6
Life expectancy at 65
12.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
99.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
139.0
Deaths
12,978,085
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
278
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
230
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1987's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0106.95107.8258.056.6
1-412.2910.1163.461.9
5-93.562.9262.560.3
10-141.581.4458.656.2
15-192.442.0854.151.6
20-242.982.7349.747.1
25-293.153.0345.442.7
30-343.363.4641.138.3
35-393.844.4436.733.9
40-444.916.1532.429.6
45-496.659.1828.125.5
50-549.7813.6024.021.6
55-5915.0220.4720.117.9
60-6424.7432.0416.414.5
65-6936.9447.6313.311.6
70-7455.7371.1510.59.1
75-7987.39108.628.06.9
80-84130.58159.676.15.3
85-89190.70229.184.64.0
90-94263.99313.943.53.0
95-99350.77404.752.82.4
100+456.25501.932.22.0