What this page measures
- Life Expectancy at Birthyears
- Number of years a newborn would live if mortality patterns at birth stayed constant. Pre-1960 values from Our World in Data long-run reconstructions (Riley, Zijdeman, HMD, UN); from 1960 World Bank WDI. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Life Expectancy at Birth, Femaleyears
- Years a newborn girl would live under current mortality patterns. Women outlive men almost everywhere; the size of the gap, not its direction, is what varies. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Life Expectancy at Birth, Maleyears
- Years a newborn boy would live under current mortality patterns. Read against the female series: the gap runs from about two years to over ten, widening where male deaths from injury, alcohol and smoking are common. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Crude Death Rateper 1,000 people
- Deaths per 1,000 people per year. Not adjusted for age structure, so an ageing country can show a rising rate while mortality risk at every age is still falling. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Under-five Mortality Rateper 1,000 live births
- Deaths of children under age 5 per 1,000 live births. Long-run series from Our World in Data (Gapminder historical estimates and UN IGME). Source: Our World in Data.
- Infant Mortality Rateper 1,000 live births
- Deaths before the first birthday per 1,000 live births. Sensitive to registration practice at the edge of viability: countries that record extremely premature births as live births rather than stillbirths report higher rates for the same underlying medical outcomes. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Maternal Mortality Ratioper 100,000 live births
- Deaths from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth per 100,000 live births, within 42 days of the end of pregnancy. A modelled estimate — few countries measure this directly with complete civil registration. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Suicide Mortality Rateper 100,000
- Suicide deaths per 100,000 people, age-standardised WHO estimate. Classification depends on legal and religious context as well as medicine, and undercounting is thought to be substantial in some countries. Source: World Bank Open Data.
- Historic Crude Death Rateper 1,000 people
- Deaths per 1,000 people per year from the Human Mortality Database (via Our World in Data). Covers countries with long vital-registration series, in some cases back to the mid-18th century. Not age-standardized. Source: Human Mortality Database.
- Life expectancy at birth is a period measure and does not predict how long people born today will actually live.
- Crude death rates are not age-standardised, so older populations look worse at identical mortality risk.
Definitions for every indicator are listed in the glossary, and collection methods in the methodology.
Life expectancy map
Years at birth. Darker = longer lives. Animate to see the modern mortality transition.
Year
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Coverage
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years
Source: World Bank · OWID (pre-1960) · years
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Longevity and historic death rates
Where people live longest today, alongside the highest death rates recorded in countries with long vital-registration series.
Highest life expectancy
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Highest historic death rates (HMD countries)
Historic death-rate rankings appear after the HMD series is seeded.
Under-five mortality map
Deaths before age 5 per 1,000 live births. Historical reconstructions reach the 18th century for some countries.
Year
2024
Coverage
195 countries
per 1,000 births
Scale
Darker = higher value. Hover a country for details.
Source: Our World in Data (Gapminder · UN IGME) · 2024 · per 1,000 births
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Life expectancy rankings
Every country ranked by life expectancy at birth. Filter by region or download the table as CSV.
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Early life-expectancy and child-mortality figures are historical reconstructions and may use national borders that differ from today (England, for example, is mapped to the United Kingdom). Country pages show the longest available series for each indicator.
Sources
- World Bank Open Data — World Development Indicators and population statistics. Licence: CC BY-4.0.
- Our World in Data — Compiled long-run demographic series (life expectancy, child mortality and related indicators) from academic reconstructions, HMD, UN IGME and UN WPP. Licence: CC BY.
- Human Mortality Database — Detailed mortality and population data for countries with high-quality vital registration, via Our World in Data grapher extracts. Licence: HMD terms.
Related topics
Cite this page
birthrate.io, "Mortality". https://birthrate.io/mortality (accessed 25 August 2026). Underlying data: World Bank Open Data; Our World in Data; Human Mortality Database.
Please cite the original statistical agency for the underlying figures. Charts and tables on this page may be reused with attribution.