Mortality in Turkey, 1955

Turkey
1955
Life expectancy: 49.1
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1955  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Turkey was 49.1 years in 1955: 52.0 for women and 46.2 for men, a gap of 5.8 years. 471,953 people died; 13.9% of them were 65 or older and 68.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
49.1
Women
52.0
Men
46.2
Life expectancy at 65
13.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
182.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
284.8
Deaths
471,953
Deaths per 1,000 people
19.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
296
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
177
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1955'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0195.79221.1452.046.2
1-434.3234.6561.856.1
5-92.092.5466.560.1
10-141.251.6862.255.8
15-191.702.7357.551.2
20-242.083.4153.046.9
25-292.383.6048.542.7
30-342.773.9944.138.4
35-393.244.7039.734.1
40-443.976.4835.329.9
45-495.089.1330.925.8
50-547.4514.6726.721.9
55-5910.3321.4522.618.3
60-6417.0133.4318.615.1
65-6926.9044.5615.112.4
70-7443.1860.6711.99.9
75-7968.9490.639.17.5
80-84106.04150.456.95.4
85-89168.55225.075.04.0
90-94247.65310.963.73.1
95-99349.91416.192.72.3
100+475.06533.452.11.9