Burkina Faso Mortality 2019: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Burkina Faso was 60.2 years in 2019: 61.9 for women and 58.3 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 179,510 people died; 21.9% of them were 65 or older and 35.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2019

Life expectancy at birth

60.2

Women

61.9

Men

58.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

58.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

87.9

Deaths

179,510

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.6

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

297

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

224

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2019's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2019

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	56.72	66.28	62.0	58.3
1-4	7.70	8.08	64.5	61.2
5-9	2.85	2.83	62.5	59.2
10-14	1.65	1.82	58.3	55.0
15-19	2.53	2.82	53.8	50.5
20-24	3.28	4.40	49.4	46.2
25-29	3.73	4.41	45.2	42.1
30-34	3.96	4.93	41.0	38.0
35-39	4.50	5.62	36.8	33.9
40-44	5.25	7.20	32.6	29.8
45-49	6.26	9.32	28.4	25.8
50-54	8.70	13.05	24.2	21.9
55-59	12.34	18.59	20.1	18.2
60-64	20.21	28.01	16.3	14.7
65-69	33.31	42.59	12.7	11.6
70-74	58.17	69.69	9.5	8.7
75-79	100.02	116.09	6.9	6.3
80-84	169.97	189.09	4.9	4.5
85-89	267.17	298.55	3.4	3.1
90-94	417.07	465.58	2.3	2.1
95-99	574.49	641.40	1.7	1.6
100+	726.69	788.15	1.4	1.3

Mortality in Burkina Faso by year

Mortality in Burkina Faso, 2019

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