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A life in India · 6 evidence records
Later life and the end of life
How long do people live, and how are deaths counted?
Explore the ten life stagesHow to read these figures
Life expectancy at60 means additional remaining years under the period mortality schedule; it is not the age at which an individual will die.
Death registration includes delayed administrative recording. Infant registrations divided by registered births do not produce a valid infant mortality rate.
1 Cr = 1,00,00,000 · 1 lakh = 1,00,000. Percentages, years, daily flows and rupees keep their own units. Showing full digits does not increase the source’s precision.
2024
Registered deaths
89.38 lakh
death registrations
Full figure: 89,38,301 death registrations
Death registrations included in CRS 2024
Breakdowns, source and meaning
Within the same source and measure
Group
Value
Male
54.01 lakh(60.4% of this total)
Female
35.37 lakh(39.6% of this total)
Sex not reported
368
Rural place of occurrence
51.15 lakh(57.2% of this total)
Urban place of occurrence
38.24 lakh(42.8% of this total)
What this measures: Death registrations included in CRS 2024
Administrative registrations; delayed registration and reporting differences apply. Not all deaths occurred in the registration year.
Full figure: 1,20,992 death registrations before age one
Registered infant deaths in CRS 2024
Breakdowns, source and meaning
What this measures: Registered infant deaths in CRS 2024
Under-registration and place-of-occurrence effects apply. Do not divide by registered births to present infant mortality rate.
Official source ↗ · Statement1 p1/PDF20; Statements20/21 pp56-57/PDF75-76
Evidence reviewed 2026-10-16.
2020–2024
Life expectancy at birth
70.6 years
Hypothetical birth cohort under mortality conditions of 2020–24
Breakdowns, source and meaning
Within the same source and measure
Group
Value
Male
68.7 years
Female
72.8 years
Rural
69.4 years
Urban
73.2 years
What this measures: Hypothetical birth cohort under mortality conditions of 2020–24
Period life expectancy, not a prediction of the lifespan of an actual person or birth cohort. At age 60 this reports additional years, not age at death.
People who have already reached exact age 60 under the period mortality schedule
Breakdowns, source and meaning
Within the same source and measure
Group
Value
Male
17.5 years
Female
19.8 years
What this measures: People who have already reached exact age 60 under the period mortality schedule
Period life expectancy, not a prediction of the lifespan of an actual person or birth cohort. At age 60 this reports additional years, not age at death.
Does life expectancy predict an individual lifespan?
No. Period life expectancy describes a hypothetical cohort under the mortality conditions of the stated period. It is neither an individual prediction nor a forecast of the mortality conditions a baby will actually experience.