Mortality in Western Europe, 1950

Western Europe
1950
Life expectancy: 67.0
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 Western Europe was 67.0 years in 1950: 69.5 for women and 64.3 for men, a gap of 5.2 years. 1,571,814 people died; 58.1% of them were 65 or older and 10.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 70-74. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
67.0
Women
69.5
Men
64.3
Life expectancy at 65
13.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
51.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
60.2
Deaths
1,571,814
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
219
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
138
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950'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
047.1260.7069.564.3
1-42.002.4071.867.3
5-90.560.8268.463.9
10-140.440.6763.659.2
15-190.691.2458.754.3
20-241.021.9253.949.7
25-291.292.0849.245.1
30-341.602.2444.540.6
35-392.082.9239.836.0
40-442.874.2435.231.5
45-494.196.6230.727.1
50-546.3010.8826.322.9
55-599.6217.2022.019.1
60-6415.5326.0818.015.5
65-6926.6539.9914.212.3
70-7446.5362.5910.99.5
75-7980.1899.138.07.1
80-84134.59158.465.85.2
85-89211.99245.854.23.7
90-94314.86362.353.02.7
95-99443.66500.502.22.0
100+585.14642.511.71.6