Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Western Asia

1996

Life expectancy: 68.8

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1996 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Western Asia was 68.8 years in 1996: 71.7 for women and 65.9 for men, a gap of 5.8 years. 1,058,281 people died; 41.5% of them were 65 or older and 23.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1996

Life expectancy at birth

68.8

Women

71.7

Men

65.9

Life expectancy at 65

14.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

40.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

51.7

Deaths

1,058,281

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.2

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

207

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

118

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1996's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1996

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	38.44	44.71	71.8	65.9
1-4	3.01	3.00	73.5	67.9
5-9	0.62	0.90	70.4	64.7
10-14	0.49	0.76	65.6	60.0
15-19	0.75	1.36	60.8	55.2
20-24	0.99	1.94	56.0	50.5
25-29	1.15	1.99	51.2	46.0
30-34	1.37	2.24	46.5	41.4
35-39	1.67	2.76	41.8	36.9
40-44	2.32	4.08	37.2	32.4
45-49	3.37	6.18	32.6	28.0
50-54	5.25	9.75	28.1	23.8
55-59	8.30	15.88	23.7	19.8
60-64	13.82	25.28	19.6	16.2
65-69	22.86	37.64	15.9	13.1
70-74	38.00	55.53	12.5	10.3
75-79	63.27	86.06	9.5	7.8
80-84	102.13	143.72	7.2	5.6
85-89	155.32	215.04	5.4	4.2
90-94	224.67	301.06	4.0	3.2
95-99	309.41	371.49	3.1	2.6
100+	421.20	425.55	2.4	2.4

Mortality in Western Asia by year

Mortality in Western Asia, 1996

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