Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 40.4 years in 1972: 41.7 for women and 39.1 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 140,816 people died; 11.5% of them were 65 or older and 58.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1972

Life expectancy at birth

40.4

Women

41.7

Men

39.1

Life expectancy at 65

10.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

146.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

306.1

Deaths

140,816

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.2

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

428

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

366

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1972's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1972

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	150.41	174.20	41.8	39.1
1-4	51.98	54.88	47.3	45.3
5-9	7.18	7.14	53.6	51.7
10-14	4.04	3.62	50.5	48.5
15-19	5.74	5.49	46.5	44.3
20-24	7.21	8.40	42.7	40.5
25-29	7.90	8.34	39.2	37.1
30-34	8.19	8.62	35.7	33.6
35-39	8.87	9.67	32.1	29.9
40-44	9.44	11.80	28.4	26.3
45-49	10.44	14.36	24.7	22.7
50-54	13.92	19.01	20.9	19.2
55-59	19.38	26.00	17.2	15.9
60-64	31.74	38.88	13.7	12.7
65-69	50.33	58.01	10.6	9.9
70-74	83.71	92.35	7.9	7.4
75-79	135.79	147.13	5.7	5.4
80-84	218.35	230.77	4.0	3.8
85-89	340.12	365.74	2.8	2.6
90-94	477.98	515.82	2.1	1.9
95-99	627.07	671.13	1.6	1.5
100+	768.99	810.31	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 1972

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