Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 48.1 years in 1983: 49.2 for women and 46.9 for men, a gap of 2.3 years. 140,945 people died; 15.1% of them were 65 or older and 56.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1983

Life expectancy at birth

48.1

Women

49.2

Men

46.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

120.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

224.3

Deaths

140,945

Deaths per 1,000 people

18.7

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

356

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

304

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1983's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1983

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	122.08	140.53	49.2	46.9
1-4	31.32	32.44	54.4	52.8
5-9	5.07	4.73	57.4	55.7
10-14	2.93	2.59	53.8	52.0
15-19	4.22	3.92	49.6	47.7
20-24	5.36	5.99	45.6	43.5
25-29	5.94	5.97	41.7	39.8
30-34	6.23	6.47	37.9	35.9
35-39	6.85	7.33	34.0	32.0
40-44	7.53	9.20	30.1	28.1
45-49	8.55	11.53	26.2	24.3
50-54	11.58	15.67	22.2	20.6
55-59	16.22	21.89	18.4	17.1
60-64	26.52	32.88	14.7	13.8
65-69	42.64	49.50	11.4	10.8
70-74	72.10	79.87	8.6	8.1
75-79	119.68	129.88	6.2	5.9
80-84	196.04	207.49	4.4	4.1
85-89	297.34	337.73	3.1	2.8
90-94	449.48	486.91	2.2	2.0
95-99	605.46	648.92	1.6	1.5
100+	747.94	796.75	1.3	1.3

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 1983

Year

Country