Country record
Born in Isle of Man: the life the odds give you
The chance of being born in Isle of Man is 1 in 188,191 — < 0.001% of the 132.1 million babies born worldwide in 2023.
Formula: 702 births in Isle of Man in 2023 ÷ 132,110,261 births worldwide in 2023
UN World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant
Life expectancy and survival
A child born in Isle of Man in 2023 could expect 81.0 years. The world figure that year was 70.3.
Female born in Isle of Man in 2023: 83.1 years. Male born in Isle of Man in 2023: 78.9 years. +10.7 years compared with the world figure.
Where the deaths fall
Of 1,000 babies born in Isle of Man in 2023, this many have died by each age.
- Median age at death
- 84.7
- Share reaching 65
- 8,908.0%
Survive to 20 here, and your chance of reaching 65 is 90.8%.
Formula: l(65) ÷ l(20)
| Age | Deaths per 1,000 born, by age band |
|---|---|
| 0–1 | 10.7 / 1,000 |
| 1–5 | 2.8 / 1,000 |
| 5–15 | 2.8 / 1,000 |
| 15–50 | 32.7 / 1,000 |
| 50–65 | 60.2 / 1,000 |
| 65–80 | 239.2 / 1,000 |
| 80–100 | 615.4 / 1,000 |
How the 1 in 188,191 is calculated
Two published numbers, one division.
| Value | Year |
|---|---|
| Births in Isle of Man, 2023 | 702 |
| Births worldwide, 2023 | 132,110,261 |
| Share of world births | 0.0005% |
| The odds | 1 in 188,191 |
Why this differs from numbers you may have seen elsewhere
Two things change the answer: which year you use, and whether the denominator is births or people alive. We use births in the same year as the numerator, over all 237 locations the UN publishes. A figure sampled over people alive answers a different question — the odds a living person is from that country — and will always be larger for large countries.
The weights used for sampling sum to 132,110,261 births, so no location is silently excluded.
Childhood
13.5 of every 1,000 children born in Isle of Man die before their fifth birthday.
- That is about 1 in 74.
- 13.5 / 1,000
- Infant mortality: 10.7 per 1,000 live births.
- 10.7 / 1,000
- Share reaching their 15th birthday: 9,837.0%.
- 9,837.0%
- Total fertility rate
- 1.55
World Bank World Development Indicators, 2023.
The past: 1950 to 2023
Life expectancy in Isle of Man has moved +17.9 years since 1950, when it was 63.1.
Isle of Man crossed 80 years of life expectancy in 2012.
Life expectancy at birth
Births per year
Births in Isle of Man peaked at 954 in 2008. In 2023 there were 702.
Play a life born here in 1970Where Isle of Man sits
Birth Lottery Index
A girl born in Isle of Man in 2023 sits at the 95th percentile of the world's life-expectancy distribution, weighting every country by its own births.
Formula: the birth-weighted share of the 237 locations whose female life expectancy is at or below 81.00 years.
- Rank by births: 208 of 237.
- 702
- Rank by life expectancy: 50 of 237.
- 81.0
- Rank by under-5 mortality: 123 of 237.
- 13.5
Population and migration
- Population
- 84,165 (2023)
- Median age
- 45.7 years (2023)
- Urban share
- 52.2 % (2023)
- Population density
- 147.1 /km² (2023)
- Net migration
- 196 (2023)
Nearby and similar countries
Other locations in Northern Europe, and one with a similar life expectancy.
Frequently asked questions
- What are the odds of being born in Isle of Man?
- 188,191 of being born here. in 2023 — 702 of the 132,110,261 babies born worldwide that year.
- How long does a child born in Isle of Man live?
- Life expectancy at birth in 2023 was 81.0 years: 83.1 for girls and 78.9 for boys. That is a population average, not a promise to any individual.
- What is child mortality like in Isle of Man?
- 13.5 of every 1,000 children die before their fifth birthday, which is about 1 in 74.
- Can I play a life born in Isle of Man?
- Yes — the button at the top of this page draws a birth in Isle of Man, and you can choose any year from 1950 to 2023.
- Where does this page's data come from?
- UN World Population Prospects 2024 for births, population, and life tables; World Bank World Development Indicators for income, urbanisation, education, and cause-of-death composition. Every figure names its year.
Data and licence
The figures on this page are derived from the Eighth Billion dataset v1.
Source data is used under its publishers' licences and attributed on every page that displays it.
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