Life expectancy at birth in Turkmenistan was 58.3 years in 1978: 62.0 for women and 54.5 for men, a gap of 7.5 years. 29,754 people died; 28.8% of them were 65 or older and 37.5% 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

58.3

Women

62.0

Men

54.5

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

84.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

115.9

Deaths

29,754

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.1

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

345

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

212

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	77.78	101.57	62.0	54.5
1-4	7.69	9.75	66.0	59.2
5-9	1.31	2.60	64.0	57.5
10-14	1.14	1.99	59.4	53.2
15-19	1.69	3.06	54.7	48.7
20-24	2.31	4.40	50.1	44.4
25-29	2.69	4.83	45.7	40.4
30-34	3.16	5.60	41.3	36.3
35-39	3.79	6.81	36.9	32.2
40-44	4.78	8.78	32.6	28.3
45-49	6.33	11.52	28.3	24.4
50-54	9.09	16.13	24.1	20.7
55-59	13.81	23.25	20.1	17.2
60-64	21.69	34.03	16.4	14.0
65-69	34.44	50.05	12.9	11.2
70-74	58.35	76.41	9.9	8.7
75-79	95.66	115.94	7.4	6.6
80-84	149.23	173.89	5.5	4.9
85-89	222.86	253.53	4.0	3.6
90-94	312.59	349.92	3.0	2.7
95-99	421.71	464.57	2.3	2.1
100+	543.30	585.79	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Turkmenistan by year

Mortality in Turkmenistan, 1978

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