Burkina Faso Mortality 1990: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 49.3 years in 1990: 50.2 for women and 48.3 for men, a gap of 1.9 years. 157,788 people died; 16.5% of them were 65 or older and 53.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1990

Life expectancy at birth

49.3

Women

50.2

Men

48.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

112.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

200.6

Deaths

157,788

Deaths per 1,000 people

17.2

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

358

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

311

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1990's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1990

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

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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	112.85	128.98	50.2	48.3
1-4	26.41	26.91	55.1	53.8
5-9	5.30	4.71	57.0	55.7
10-14	3.00	2.61	53.5	51.9
15-19	4.37	3.95	49.2	47.6
20-24	5.55	6.04	45.3	43.5
25-29	6.14	6.01	41.5	39.7
30-34	6.42	6.51	37.7	35.9
35-39	7.05	7.37	33.8	32.0
40-44	7.71	9.24	29.9	28.1
45-49	8.73	11.57	26.0	24.3
50-54	11.80	15.73	22.1	20.6
55-59	16.53	21.96	18.3	17.1
60-64	27.05	32.98	14.6	13.7
65-69	43.42	49.67	11.4	10.8
70-74	73.27	80.16	8.5	8.1
75-79	121.32	130.33	6.2	5.9
80-84	198.14	208.12	4.4	4.1
85-89	299.59	338.36	3.1	2.8
90-94	451.26	487.30	2.2	2.0
95-99	602.48	647.86	1.7	1.5
100+	745.21	795.86	1.3	1.3

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 1990

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