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

Sri Lanka

1999

Life expectancy: 70.4

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

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-5 -1 1999 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka was 70.4 years in 1999: 75.8 for women and 65.9 for men, a gap of 9.8 years. 131,551 people died; 54.7% of them were 65 or older and 4.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1999

Life expectancy at birth

70.4

Women

75.8

Men

65.9

Life expectancy at 65

14.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

14.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

17.6

Deaths

131,551

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.9

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

259

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1999's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1999

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	12.96	15.91	75.8	65.9
1-4	0.81	0.85	75.7	66.0
5-9	0.25	0.53	72.0	62.2
10-14	0.28	0.68	67.1	57.4
15-19	0.52	1.72	62.2	52.5
20-24	0.75	3.12	57.3	48.0
25-29	0.88	3.31	52.5	43.7
30-34	1.05	3.59	47.7	39.4
35-39	1.32	4.34	43.0	35.0
40-44	1.84	5.76	38.2	30.8
45-49	2.74	8.33	33.6	26.6
50-54	4.32	11.91	29.0	22.6
55-59	6.68	17.71	24.6	18.8
60-64	10.94	27.04	20.3	15.3
65-69	18.60	41.42	16.3	12.2
70-74	32.90	64.45	12.7	9.4
75-79	58.39	101.25	9.5	7.0
80-84	103.28	159.51	6.8	5.1
85-89	172.88	251.02	4.8	3.6
90-94	273.67	389.77	3.4	2.5
95-99	405.33	552.72	2.4	1.8
100+	557.23	717.00	1.8	1.4

Mortality in Sri Lanka by year

Mortality in Sri Lanka, 1999

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