Mortality in World, 2017

World
2017
Life expectancy: 72.1
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   2017  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in World was 72.1 years in 2017: 74.7 for women and 69.5 for men, a gap of 5.3 years. 57,572,254 people died; 55.2% of them were 65 or older and 10.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 80-84. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
72.1
Women
74.7
Men
69.5
Life expectancy at 65
17.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
30.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
41.1
Deaths
57,572,254
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
178
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
111
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017'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
028.9533.0974.769.5
1-42.792.8275.970.8
5-91.191.2072.767.6
10-140.740.8268.263.0
15-190.971.3763.458.2
20-241.161.9358.753.6
25-291.262.0154.049.1
30-341.462.3049.444.6
35-391.812.8744.740.1
40-442.333.7940.135.6
45-493.075.1935.531.2
50-544.577.7631.027.0
55-596.9411.8326.722.9
60-6410.3117.7422.519.2
65-6915.9926.0418.615.7
70-7425.9039.1714.912.6
75-7942.1160.5111.69.7
80-8469.8795.978.87.3
85-89114.50151.426.45.3
90-94187.78237.914.53.8
95-99296.01352.343.12.7
100+444.54475.852.32.1