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

World

1979

Life expectancy: 60.2

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

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-5 -1 1979 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in World was 60.2 years in 1979: 62.5 for women and 57.9 for men, a gap of 4.6 years. 46,963,884 people died; 33.5% of them were 65 or older and 31.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1979

Life expectancy at birth

60.2

Women

62.5

Men

57.9

Life expectancy at 65

13.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

82.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

120.8

Deaths

46,963,884

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.8

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

271

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

190

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1979's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1979

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	83.28	91.88	62.5	57.9
1-4	11.01	10.44	66.8	62.3
5-9	2.79	2.83	65.7	60.9
10-14	1.52	1.76	61.6	56.7
15-19	1.91	2.35	57.1	52.2
20-24	2.32	3.13	52.6	47.8
25-29	2.50	3.30	48.2	43.5
30-34	2.84	3.64	43.8	39.2
35-39	3.44	4.56	39.3	34.8
40-44	4.32	6.32	35.0	30.6
45-49	5.62	8.77	30.7	26.5
50-54	7.90	12.80	26.5	22.6
55-59	11.19	18.28	22.5	18.9
60-64	18.00	28.56	18.6	15.4
65-69	26.81	42.08	15.1	12.4
70-74	42.49	63.85	11.9	9.7
75-79	67.41	96.31	9.1	7.5
80-84	108.80	144.97	6.8	5.6
85-89	167.76	210.43	5.0	4.2
90-94	248.80	296.18	3.7	3.2
95-99	345.25	389.85	2.8	2.5
100+	457.33	492.61	2.2	2.0

Mortality in World by year

Mortality in World, 1979

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