Table 2.

Life expectancy by caste and sex in India, 2015–2016

Age Interval	SC			ST			OBC			Others
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Below 1	63.13	60.32	66.31	64.02	60.53	67.89	65.06	62.88	67.47	67.94	66.09	69.95
1	65.65	63.13	68.48	65.96	62.90	69.34	67.35	65.25	69.64	69.89	68.11	71.81
5	63.12	60.59	65.95	63.84	60.98	67.01	64.82	62.81	67.00	67.07	65.26	69.01
10	59.70	57.18	62.52	60.04	57.18	63.19	61.43	59.41	63.62	63.59	61.89	65.41
15	54.96	52.43	57.78	55.35	52.52	58.47	56.65	54.62	58.87	58.77	57.06	60.58
20	50.39	47.90	53.17	50.83	47.98	53.98	52.03	49.98	54.26	54.10	52.37	55.96
25	45.87	43.42	48.61	46.44	43.58	49.60	47.48	45.46	49.69	49.53	47.77	51.41
30	41.45	39.08	44.11	42.06	39.29	45.14	42.96	41.02	45.07	44.92	43.25	46.71
35	37.25	35.02	39.75	37.96	35.38	40.80	38.70	36.90	40.68	40.48	38.98	42.10
40	32.87	30.83	35.17	33.72	31.36	36.30	34.27	32.64	36.07	35.96	34.62	37.40
45	28.76	26.98	30.77	29.65	27.42	32.08	29.97	28.53	31.55	31.55	30.36	32.82
50	24.66	23.04	26.47	25.69	23.75	27.77	25.78	24.56	27.13	27.31	26.30	28.39
55	20.76	19.45	22.26	21.88	20.30	23.63	21.74	20.72	22.91	23.30	22.73	23.97
60	17.39	16.27	18.69	18.62	17.44	19.93	18.24	17.44	19.15	19.51	19.16	19.96
65	14.09	13.20	15.10	15.29	14.44	16.21	14.79	14.14	15.53	16.01	15.82	16.29
70	11.37	10.72	12.12	12.47	11.69	13.28	11.95	11.44	12.52	12.93	12.87	13.08
75	8.55	8.00	9.15	9.63	9.04	10.19	9.22	8.85	9.61	10.27	10.34	10.28
80	7.22	6.66	7.78	8.70	8.28	9.09	7.95	7.51	8.39	8.44	8.66	8.34
85+	4.97	4.47	5.43	6.35	6.32	6.38	5.82	5.46	6.15	6.95	7.97	6.28

OBC, other backward classes; SC, scheduled castes; ST, scheduled tribes.