Burkina Faso Mortality 2010: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 56.3 years in 2010: 57.8 for women and 54.8 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 183,349 people died; 18.2% of them were 65 or older and 45.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2010

Life expectancy at birth

56.3

Women

57.8

Men

54.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

77.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

122.6

Deaths

183,349

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.3

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

323

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

257

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2010's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2010

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	76.36	87.31	57.8	54.8
1-4	12.52	12.79	61.3	58.7
5-9	3.73	3.65	60.3	57.7
10-14	2.14	2.19	56.4	53.7
15-19	3.20	3.29	52.0	49.2
20-24	4.11	5.00	47.8	45.0
25-29	4.61	5.00	43.7	41.1
30-34	4.86	5.54	39.7	37.1
35-39	5.44	6.33	35.6	33.0
40-44	6.17	8.07	31.5	29.0
45-49	7.19	10.30	27.4	25.1
50-54	9.87	14.25	23.3	21.3
55-59	13.91	20.12	19.4	17.7
60-64	22.74	30.30	15.6	14.3
65-69	37.05	45.86	12.2	11.2
70-74	63.76	74.47	9.1	8.4
75-79	107.93	122.74	6.6	6.1
80-84	180.37	197.71	4.7	4.3
85-89	279.09	308.12	3.3	3.0
90-94	429.37	474.90	2.3	2.1
95-99	584.98	640.45	1.7	1.6
100+	733.14	787.40	1.4	1.3

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 2010

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