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

Sweden

1956

Life expectancy: 72.7

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Sweden was 72.7 years in 1956: 74.4 for women and 71.0 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 70,174 people died; 70.2% of them were 65 or older and 3.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1956

Life expectancy at birth

72.7

Women

74.4

Men

71.0

Life expectancy at 65

14.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

17.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

21.2

Deaths

70,174

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.6

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

148

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1956's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1956

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	15.64	19.45	74.4	71.0
1-4	0.83	1.12	74.6	71.3
5-9	0.34	0.63	70.8	67.7
10-14	0.28	0.40	65.9	62.9
15-19	0.48	1.05	61.0	58.0
20-24	0.50	1.17	56.2	53.3
25-29	0.61	1.25	51.3	48.6
30-34	0.92	1.59	46.4	43.9
35-39	1.30	1.86	41.6	39.2
40-44	1.90	2.73	36.9	34.5
45-49	3.04	4.18	32.2	30.0
50-54	4.69	6.90	27.7	25.6
55-59	7.41	11.33	23.3	21.4
60-64	12.50	18.75	19.0	17.4
65-69	22.52	29.50	15.1	13.9
70-74	40.40	48.92	11.6	10.7
75-79	70.33	80.40	8.6	8.0
80-84	121.70	136.37	6.2	5.7
85-89	192.78	217.43	4.4	4.1
90-94	297.46	318.29	3.1	3.0
95-99	424.10	430.46	2.3	2.3
100+	568.80	559.66	1.8	1.8

Mortality in Sweden by year

Mortality in Sweden, 1956

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