Western Asia

2001

Life expectancy: 70.4

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Western Asia was 70.4 years in 2001: 73.1 for women and 67.8 for men, a gap of 5.3 years. 1,077,415 people died; 46.8% of them were 65 or older and 18.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2001

Life expectancy at birth

70.4

Women

73.1

Men

67.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

32.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

40.9

Deaths

1,077,415

Deaths per 1,000 people

5.6

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

180

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

108

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2001's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2001

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	30.45	35.94	73.1	67.8
1-4	2.21	2.22	74.3	69.3
5-9	0.56	0.79	71.0	65.9
10-14	0.44	0.66	66.2	61.1
15-19	0.68	1.15	61.3	56.3
20-24	0.90	1.57	56.5	51.6
25-29	1.05	1.65	51.8	47.0
30-34	1.25	1.86	47.0	42.4
35-39	1.58	2.36	42.3	37.8
40-44	2.05	3.36	37.6	33.2
45-49	3.11	5.34	33.0	28.7
50-54	4.81	8.77	28.5	24.4
55-59	7.44	13.68	24.1	20.4
60-64	12.99	22.83	19.9	16.6
65-69	21.81	35.13	16.1	13.3
70-74	36.94	53.98	12.6	10.4
75-79	61.14	83.44	9.6	7.9
80-84	99.75	139.78	7.2	5.7
85-89	155.23	213.88	5.3	4.2
90-94	226.94	297.17	4.0	3.2
95-99	311.60	366.67	3.1	2.7
100+	417.33	398.66	2.4	2.5

Mortality in Western Asia by year

Mortality in Western Asia, 2001

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