Sri Lanka Mortality 1960: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Sri Lanka

1960

Life expectancy: 60.6

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

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-5 -1 1960 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka was 60.6 years in 1960: 62.6 for women and 59.1 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 103,367 people died; 34.9% of them were 65 or older and 31.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1960

Life expectancy at birth

60.6

Women

62.6

Men

59.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

70.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

95.6

Deaths

103,367

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.7

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

281

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

223

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1960

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	69.66	78.22	62.6	59.1
1-4	7.00	6.90	66.0	62.8
5-9	1.51	2.24	63.9	60.5
10-14	1.24	1.59	59.3	56.1
15-19	1.85	2.57	54.7	51.6
20-24	2.37	3.59	50.2	47.2
25-29	2.67	3.52	45.7	43.0
30-34	3.08	3.74	41.3	38.7
35-39	3.73	4.55	36.9	34.4
40-44	4.83	6.09	32.6	30.1
45-49	6.88	8.84	28.3	26.0
50-54	10.12	13.23	24.2	22.0
55-59	14.83	19.86	20.3	18.4
60-64	22.35	29.97	16.7	15.0
65-69	34.20	44.75	13.4	12.0
70-74	54.20	67.15	10.4	9.4
75-79	86.76	100.93	7.8	7.2
80-84	138.34	151.00	5.8	5.4
85-89	208.48	223.90	4.2	4.0
90-94	299.76	327.43	3.1	2.9
95-99	411.10	448.49	2.4	2.2
100+	537.61	581.84	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Sri Lanka by year

Mortality in Sri Lanka, 1960

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