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

World

1992

Life expectancy: 64.3

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

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-5 -1 1992 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in World was 64.3 years in 1992: 66.8 for women and 61.8 for men, a gap of 5.0 years. 50,281,874 people died; 40.1% of them were 65 or older and 25.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1992

Life expectancy at birth

64.3

Women

66.8

Men

61.8

Life expectancy at 65

14.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

91.0

Deaths

50,281,874

Deaths per 1,000 people

9.1

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

236

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

156

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1992's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1992

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	64.02	70.31	66.8	61.8
1-4	7.50	7.16	70.1	65.2
5-9	2.20	2.18	68.2	63.1
10-14	1.20	1.33	64.0	58.8
15-19	1.50	1.88	59.3	54.1
20-24	1.77	2.54	54.8	49.6
25-29	1.96	2.77	50.2	45.2
30-34	2.23	3.22	45.7	40.8
35-39	2.57	3.88	41.2	36.4
40-44	3.28	5.21	36.7	32.1
45-49	4.50	7.21	32.2	27.9
50-54	6.55	11.00	27.9	23.8
55-59	9.57	15.98	23.8	20.0
60-64	15.15	24.86	19.8	16.5
65-69	23.27	36.70	16.1	13.3
70-74	36.98	55.63	12.8	10.5
75-79	58.71	85.15	9.9	8.0
80-84	94.02	131.26	7.4	6.0
85-89	147.85	196.57	5.5	4.5
90-94	226.04	281.46	4.0	3.3
95-99	327.98	378.78	2.9	2.6
100+	453.37	492.15	2.2	2.0

Mortality in World by year

Mortality in World, 1992

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