Angola Mortality 1959: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Angola was 37.7 years in 1959: 39.5 for women and 36.0 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 139,754 people died; 10.2% of them were 65 or older and 57.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1959

Life expectancy at birth

37.7

Women

39.5

Men

36.0

Life expectancy at 65

10.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

173.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

317.8

Deaths

139,754

Deaths per 1,000 people

27.2

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

475

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

414

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1959's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1959

Deaths per 1,000 people per year in each age group. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one below. Hover for exact values.

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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	181.29	213.07	39.5	36.0
1-4	46.73	51.80	46.0	43.2
5-9	10.67	11.53	50.9	48.5
10-14	6.19	6.27	48.6	46.3
15-19	6.36	6.78	45.0	42.7
20-24	7.91	9.43	41.4	39.0
25-29	9.10	10.24	38.0	35.8
30-34	9.86	11.13	34.6	32.5
35-39	10.77	12.63	31.2	29.3
40-44	11.77	14.35	27.8	26.0
45-49	12.90	16.71	24.3	22.8
50-54	16.41	20.98	20.8	19.5
55-59	21.60	26.43	17.4	16.4
60-64	32.72	37.50	14.1	13.4
65-69	50.05	54.74	11.1	10.6
70-74	79.17	83.85	8.5	8.2
75-79	119.12	127.48	6.5	6.2
80-84	172.54	188.83	5.0	4.6
85-89	244.31	271.73	3.8	3.4
90-94	329.18	367.89	2.9	2.6
95-99	431.12	483.72	2.3	2.0
100+	544.13	605.11	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Angola by year

Mortality in Angola, 1959

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