Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 38.1 years in 1966: 39.4 for women and 36.9 for men, a gap of 2.5 years. 135,662 people died; 10.3% of them were 65 or older and 58.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1966

Life expectancy at birth

38.1

Women

39.4

Men

36.9

Life expectancy at 65

9.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

152.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

327.1

Deaths

135,662

Deaths per 1,000 people

25.9

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

456

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

396

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1966's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1966

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.

WomenMen

Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	156.97	181.75	39.4	36.9
1-4	58.03	61.62	44.9	43.0
5-9	8.36	8.11	51.8	50.1
10-14	4.58	4.04	48.9	47.1
15-19	6.44	6.12	45.0	43.0
20-24	8.10	9.35	41.4	39.3
25-29	8.84	9.30	38.0	36.0
30-34	9.18	9.52	34.6	32.6
35-39	9.91	10.64	31.1	29.1
40-44	10.45	12.90	27.6	25.6
45-49	11.45	15.56	23.9	22.1
50-54	15.25	20.44	20.2	18.7
55-59	21.15	27.78	16.6	15.4
60-64	34.75	41.49	13.1	12.3
65-69	54.74	61.75	10.1	9.6
70-74	90.32	97.91	7.5	7.2
75-79	145.37	155.00	5.4	5.2
80-84	231.45	241.46	3.8	3.7
85-89	356.51	378.97	2.7	2.5
90-94	495.45	529.12	2.0	1.9
95-99	641.49	681.20	1.6	1.5
100+	779.73	810.57	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 1966

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