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

Syrian Arab Republic

1998

Life expectancy: 70.2

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Life expectancy at birth in Syrian Arab Republic was 70.2 years in 1998: 72.3 for women and 68.4 for men, a gap of 3.9 years. 72,046 people died; 43.2% of them were 65 or older and 17.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1998

Life expectancy at birth

70.2

Women

72.3

Men

68.4

Life expectancy at 65

13.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

19.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

25.5

Deaths

72,046

Deaths per 1,000 people

4.6

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

190

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

134

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1998

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	17.76	22.33	72.3	68.4
1-4	1.40	1.54	72.5	68.9
5-9	0.54	0.80	68.9	65.3
10-14	0.43	0.68	64.1	60.6
15-19	0.71	1.22	59.3	55.8
20-24	1.00	1.71	54.5	51.1
25-29	1.21	1.73	49.7	46.5
30-34	1.49	1.95	45.0	41.9
35-39	1.95	2.51	40.3	37.3
40-44	2.73	3.65	35.7	32.7
45-49	4.10	5.73	31.1	28.3
50-54	6.16	9.06	26.7	24.0
55-59	9.37	14.52	22.5	20.0
60-64	14.95	22.77	18.4	16.3
65-69	25.17	35.80	14.7	13.0
70-74	43.24	56.96	11.3	10.0
75-79	73.78	90.92	8.4	7.5
80-84	125.93	145.24	6.0	5.5
85-89	200.13	228.14	4.3	3.9
90-94	303.09	356.85	3.1	2.7
95-99	455.51	499.71	2.2	2.0
100+	612.11	653.81	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Syrian Arab Republic by year

Mortality in Syrian Arab Republic, 1998

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