Life expectancy at birth in Uzbekistan was 62.4 years in 1978: 65.3 for women and 59.5 for men, a gap of 5.8 years. 140,563 people died; 36.6% of them were 65 or older and 36.7% 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

62.4

Women

65.3

Men

59.5

Life expectancy at 65

12.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

76.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

101.2

Deaths

140,563

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.5

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

253

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

159

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.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	71.27	88.99	65.3	59.5
1-4	6.37	7.45	69.0	64.0
5-9	0.54	1.45	66.8	61.8
10-14	0.61	1.16	62.0	57.3
15-19	0.92	1.93	57.1	52.6
20-24	1.29	2.75	52.4	48.1
25-29	1.55	2.85	47.7	43.7
30-34	1.87	3.20	43.1	39.3
35-39	2.40	4.04	38.4	34.9
40-44	3.28	5.51	33.9	30.5
45-49	4.80	7.94	29.4	26.3
50-54	7.11	11.84	25.0	22.3
55-59	11.29	18.12	20.8	18.5
60-64	18.67	27.93	16.9	15.0
65-69	31.09	43.16	13.3	11.9
70-74	54.91	68.42	10.1	9.1
75-79	92.80	107.82	7.5	6.8
80-84	147.27	165.89	5.5	5.0
85-89	220.90	249.50	4.1	3.7
90-94	308.46	347.82	3.1	2.7
95-99	427.61	479.15	2.3	2.0
100+	597.62	667.91	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Uzbekistan by year

Mortality in Uzbekistan, 1978

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