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

Sri Lanka

1957

Life expectancy: 58.5

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 Sri Lanka was 58.5 years in 1957: 60.5 for women and 57.1 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 112,241 people died; 37.1% of them were 65 or older and 31.6% 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

58.5

Women

60.5

Men

57.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

80.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

111.2

Deaths

112,241

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.5

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

303

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

243

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	80.30	89.06	60.5	57.1
1-4	8.79	8.52	64.5	61.3
5-9	1.85	2.63	62.7	59.3
10-14	1.41	1.72	58.3	55.1
15-19	2.12	2.82	53.7	50.5
20-24	2.70	3.92	49.2	46.2
25-29	3.04	3.84	44.8	42.1
30-34	3.47	4.08	40.5	37.9
35-39	4.18	4.97	36.2	33.6
40-44	5.39	6.68	31.9	29.4
45-49	7.58	9.69	27.7	25.3
50-54	11.07	14.45	23.6	21.4
55-59	16.06	21.53	19.8	17.8
60-64	23.88	32.17	16.3	14.5
65-69	36.22	47.69	13.0	11.6
70-74	57.15	71.13	10.1	9.1
75-79	90.80	106.62	7.6	7.0
80-84	143.48	159.13	5.6	5.2
85-89	214.73	235.14	4.1	3.8
90-94	308.48	343.22	3.1	2.8
95-99	423.97	468.70	2.3	2.1
100+	552.55	603.54	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Sri Lanka by year

Mortality in Sri Lanka, 1957

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