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

Mortality in Sweden, 1971

Sweden
1971
Life expectancy: 74.6
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1971  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sweden was 74.6 years in 1971: 77.4 for women and 72.0 for men, a gap of 5.4 years. 82,665 people died; 74.7% of them were 65 or older and 1.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
74.6
Women
77.4
Men
72.0
Life expectancy at 65
15.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
11.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
13.0
Deaths
82,665
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
144
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
83
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1971's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
09.8313.0177.472.0
1-40.390.4677.271.9
5-90.210.4073.368.0
10-140.300.3868.363.2
15-190.420.9863.458.3
20-240.421.1458.653.6
25-290.431.0853.748.9
30-340.751.3848.844.1
35-391.141.9544.039.4
40-441.712.9639.234.7
45-492.574.3534.530.2
50-543.996.6829.925.8
55-595.8810.6425.521.6
60-649.5218.0321.217.7
65-6915.8729.7517.114.1
70-7429.3949.3613.310.9
75-7953.9479.549.98.3
80-8495.19125.017.26.1
85-89155.82196.975.24.4
90-94245.18281.323.73.3
95-99357.98388.312.72.5
100+498.58511.852.02.0