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

Sri Lanka

1968

Life expectancy: 63.9

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-5 -1 1968 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka was 63.9 years in 1968: 66.2 for women and 62.0 for men, a gap of 4.2 years. 95,520 people died; 33.1% of them were 65 or older and 29.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

63.9

Women

66.2

Men

62.0

Life expectancy at 65

13.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

55.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

73.8

Deaths

95,520

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.1

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

249

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

183

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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	54.29	62.31	66.2	62.0
1-4	4.79	4.86	68.8	64.9
5-9	1.05	1.71	66.1	62.2
10-14	0.91	1.36	61.5	57.7
15-19	1.40	2.29	56.7	53.0
20-24	1.79	3.10	52.1	48.6
25-29	2.01	3.05	47.6	44.3
30-34	2.33	3.27	43.0	40.0
35-39	2.88	3.98	38.5	35.6
40-44	3.80	5.31	34.0	31.3
45-49	5.49	7.64	29.6	27.0
50-54	8.28	11.40	25.4	23.0
55-59	12.38	17.27	21.3	19.2
60-64	19.10	26.56	17.5	15.7
65-69	30.21	40.64	14.0	12.6
70-74	49.03	62.24	10.9	9.8
75-79	79.54	94.99	8.2	7.5
80-84	129.07	143.34	6.0	5.6
85-89	198.72	213.73	4.4	4.1
90-94	291.09	314.76	3.2	3.0
95-99	404.25	434.51	2.4	2.3
100+	534.53	568.57	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Sri Lanka by year

Mortality in Sri Lanka, 1968

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