Life expectancy at birth in Tajikistan was 58.4 years in 1978: 60.6 for women and 56.1 for men, a gap of 4.5 years. 43,268 people died; 25.5% of them were 65 or older and 46.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

58.4

Women

60.6

Men

56.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

97.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

134.5

Deaths

43,268

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.5

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

282

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

204

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	95.95	113.65	60.6	56.1
1-4	10.08	10.80	65.6	61.7
5-9	1.22	1.98	64.2	60.4
10-14	1.04	1.44	59.6	55.9
15-19	1.55	2.31	54.9	51.3
20-24	2.11	3.30	50.3	46.9
25-29	2.46	3.46	45.8	42.6
30-34	2.89	3.91	41.3	38.3
35-39	3.52	4.87	36.9	34.0
40-44	4.49	6.50	32.5	29.8
45-49	6.13	9.04	28.2	25.7
50-54	8.78	13.16	24.0	21.8
55-59	13.54	19.66	19.9	18.1
60-64	21.77	29.65	16.2	14.7
65-69	35.22	45.00	12.7	11.6
70-74	60.64	71.14	9.7	8.9
75-79	99.38	111.30	7.2	6.7
80-84	154.29	170.45	5.3	4.9
85-89	227.53	254.24	4.0	3.6
90-94	314.83	351.85	3.0	2.7
95-99	437.32	481.88	2.2	2.0
100+	615.20	663.75	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Tajikistan by year

Mortality in Tajikistan, 1978

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