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

Sweden

1978

Life expectancy: 75.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Sweden was 75.5 years in 1978: 78.7 for women and 72.5 for men, a gap of 6.2 years. 89,593 people died; 78.7% of them were 65 or older and 1.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

75.5

Women

78.7

Men

72.5

Life expectancy at 65

16.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

7.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

9.1

Deaths

89,593

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.8

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

146

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

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	6.60	8.76	78.7	72.5
1-4	0.35	0.37	78.2	72.1
5-9	0.19	0.32	74.3	68.2
10-14	0.16	0.29	69.4	63.3
15-19	0.38	0.84	64.4	58.4
20-24	0.46	1.13	59.6	53.6
25-29	0.45	1.22	54.7	48.9
30-34	0.62	1.40	49.8	44.2
35-39	0.95	1.79	45.0	39.5
40-44	1.55	2.92	40.2	34.8
45-49	2.34	4.28	35.5	30.3
50-54	3.57	6.91	30.8	25.9
55-59	5.32	11.06	26.3	21.7
60-64	8.21	17.67	22.0	17.8
65-69	14.32	29.27	17.8	14.2
70-74	25.89	47.94	13.9	11.0
75-79	48.25	78.54	10.5	8.3
80-84	86.02	123.26	7.6	6.2
85-89	147.20	194.54	5.5	4.5
90-94	227.81	279.52	3.9	3.3
95-99	333.95	379.68	2.9	2.6
100+	468.56	499.65	2.1	2.0

Mortality in Sweden by year

Mortality in Sweden, 1978

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