Mortality in United Kingdom, 1951

United Kingdom
1951
Life expectancy: 68.2
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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Life expectancy at birth in United Kingdom was 68.2 years in 1951: 70.7 for women and 65.7 for men, a gap of 5.0 years. 631,196 people died; 66.0% of them were 65 or older and 4.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
68.2
Women
70.7
Men
65.7
Life expectancy at 65
12.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
30.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
36.0
Deaths
631,196
Deaths per 1,000 people
12.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
216
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
142
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1951'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
026.8735.3270.765.7
1-41.371.5671.667.0
5-90.460.6868.063.5
10-140.390.5763.158.7
15-190.680.9158.253.8
20-240.961.3853.449.1
25-291.241.5348.744.4
30-341.531.8044.039.7
35-391.992.3739.335.0
40-442.803.6834.630.4
45-494.356.5330.125.9
50-546.6911.5725.721.7
55-5910.3918.7721.517.8
60-6416.8330.9817.514.3
65-6928.6847.7013.811.3
70-7449.5473.2610.58.7
75-7986.30116.717.86.5
80-84139.97178.275.74.7
85-89219.10277.044.13.4
90-94317.22388.933.02.5
95-99442.85528.722.21.9
100+577.80662.161.71.5