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

Syrian Arab Republic

1972

Life expectancy: 62.0

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Life expectancy at birth in Syrian Arab Republic was 62.0 years in 1972: 62.8 for women and 61.2 for men, a gap of 1.6 years. 64,524 people died; 27.0% of them were 65 or older and 44.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1972

Life expectancy at birth

62.0

Women

62.8

Men

61.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

65.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

94.1

Deaths

64,524

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.5

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

243

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

215

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1972's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1972

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	66.11	71.38	62.8	61.2
1-4	8.16	7.52	66.0	64.6
5-9	1.51	1.47	64.1	62.5
10-14	1.23	1.10	59.6	58.0
15-19	1.83	1.84	55.0	53.3
20-24	2.46	2.62	50.4	48.8
25-29	2.85	2.70	46.0	44.4
30-34	3.32	3.04	41.7	39.9
35-39	3.97	3.84	37.3	35.5
40-44	4.93	5.25	33.0	31.2
45-49	6.51	7.60	28.8	26.9
50-54	9.21	11.37	24.6	22.9
55-59	13.23	17.30	20.7	19.0
60-64	20.46	26.43	16.9	15.5
65-69	32.30	40.39	13.5	12.4
70-74	53.01	62.89	10.4	9.6
75-79	86.59	98.76	7.7	7.2
80-84	140.62	154.40	5.6	5.3
85-89	215.52	237.91	4.1	3.8
90-94	330.93	365.66	2.9	2.6
95-99	459.72	505.28	2.1	2.0
100+	607.05	654.45	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Syrian Arab Republic by year

Mortality in Syrian Arab Republic, 1972

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