Mortality in World, 2010

World
2010
Life expectancy: 70.1
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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-5 -1   2010  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in World was 70.1 years in 2010: 72.7 for women and 67.6 for men, a gap of 5.1 years. 54,268,588 people died; 50.9% of them were 65 or older and 13.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
70.1
Women
72.7
Men
67.6
Life expectancy at 65
16.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
37.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
51.6
Deaths
54,268,588
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
194
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
122
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2010'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
036.6041.0472.767.6
1-43.653.6374.369.4
5-91.451.4471.466.4
10-140.870.9566.961.8
15-191.141.4662.257.1
20-241.372.0057.552.5
25-291.572.2652.948.0
30-341.802.6548.343.5
35-392.073.1743.739.1
40-442.564.1739.134.7
45-493.495.9634.630.3
50-545.068.8330.226.2
55-597.0712.5525.922.2
60-6411.2718.8621.718.5
65-6918.0728.1317.815.1
70-7429.0243.4314.312.0
75-7946.5066.1511.19.3
80-8476.79104.178.37.0
85-89123.05161.376.15.1
90-94199.63250.394.33.6
95-99307.59360.203.12.7
100+452.78484.292.22.1