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

World

2003

Life expectancy: 67.4

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

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-5 -1 2003 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in World was 67.4 years in 2003: 69.9 for women and 65.0 for men, a gap of 5.0 years. 53,077,072 people died; 47.0% of them were 65 or older and 17.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2003

Life expectancy at birth

67.4

Women

69.9

Men

65.0

Life expectancy at 65

15.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

48.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

68.0

Deaths

53,077,072

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.3

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

214

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

139

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2003's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2003

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	48.06	53.21	69.9	65.0
1-4	5.16	5.04	72.3	67.5
5-9	1.80	1.73	69.8	64.8
10-14	0.99	1.07	65.4	60.3
15-19	1.31	1.60	60.7	55.6
20-24	1.68	2.30	56.1	51.1
25-29	1.92	2.58	51.5	46.6
30-34	2.05	2.90	47.0	42.2
35-39	2.36	3.55	42.5	37.8
40-44	3.02	4.93	37.9	33.4
45-49	3.91	6.77	33.5	29.2
50-54	5.55	9.78	29.1	25.1
55-59	8.18	13.66	24.8	21.2
60-64	13.08	21.51	20.8	17.5
65-69	20.57	32.29	17.0	14.2
70-74	32.71	48.56	13.5	11.3
75-79	51.67	73.47	10.5	8.7
80-84	84.08	114.83	7.9	6.5
85-89	137.05	179.03	5.7	4.7
90-94	218.27	269.90	4.0	3.4
95-99	329.86	376.81	2.9	2.6
100+	471.68	497.49	2.1	2.0

Mortality in World by year

Mortality in World, 2003

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