Mortality in United States of America, 1975

United States of America
1975
Life expectancy: 72.5
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.
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Life expectancy at birth in United States of America was 72.5 years in 1975: 76.5 for women and 68.7 for men, a gap of 7.7 years. 1,921,062 people died; 64.3% of them were 65 or older and 3.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 75-79. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
72.5
Women
76.5
Men
68.7
Life expectancy at 65
15.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
15.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
18.7
Deaths
1,921,062
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
213
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
113
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1975'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
014.1617.9376.568.7
1-40.640.7876.569.0
5-90.290.4272.765.2
10-140.250.4567.860.3
15-190.541.4662.955.4
20-240.662.0658.150.8
25-290.731.9553.346.3
30-340.972.0448.541.7
35-391.472.7543.737.1
40-442.364.1639.032.6
45-493.656.6934.428.3
50-545.4310.4830.024.1
55-598.1316.1625.720.3
60-6411.9924.9321.716.8
65-6917.3836.5217.913.7
70-7429.4155.6914.310.9
75-7945.9578.7411.18.6
80-8476.80117.138.46.6
85-89125.04170.756.15.0
90-94195.79244.024.43.8
95-99289.70333.953.22.9
100+418.13447.292.42.2