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

Southern Asia

1988

Life expectancy: 57.7

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Life expectancy at birth in Southern Asia was 57.7 years in 1988: 58.6 for women and 57.0 for men, a gap of 1.5 years. 12,924,023 people died; 24.7% of them were 65 or older and 41.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1988

Life expectancy at birth

57.7

Women

58.6

Men

57.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

97.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

134.7

Deaths

12,924,023

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.3

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

274

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

226

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1988's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1988

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	104.10	104.89	58.6	57.0
1-4	11.69	9.61	63.8	62.2
5-9	3.41	2.81	62.8	60.5
10-14	1.53	1.39	58.9	56.4
15-19	2.38	2.00	54.3	51.7
20-24	2.90	2.63	49.9	47.2
25-29	3.08	2.94	45.6	42.8
30-34	3.27	3.37	41.3	38.4
35-39	3.74	4.33	36.9	34.0
40-44	4.79	6.01	32.6	29.7
45-49	6.52	9.02	28.3	25.5
50-54	9.61	13.44	24.1	21.6
55-59	14.79	20.28	20.2	17.9
60-64	24.36	31.79	16.5	14.6
65-69	36.43	47.45	13.3	11.6
70-74	55.11	71.11	10.5	9.1
75-79	86.57	108.63	8.1	6.9
80-84	129.46	159.96	6.1	5.2
85-89	189.78	229.79	4.6	4.0
90-94	262.18	313.64	3.5	3.0
95-99	349.50	404.76	2.8	2.4
100+	454.13	499.93	2.2	2.0

Mortality in Southern Asia by year

Mortality in Southern Asia, 1988

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