🇰🇷Korea, Rep. mortality (2024)

Life Expectancy at Birth · years

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.