Life expectancy at birth in Burundi was 44.4 years in 1978: 45.7 for women and 43.1 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 83,977 people died; 12.5% of them were 65 or older and 53.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

44.4

Women

45.7

Men

43.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

137.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

234.1

Deaths

83,977

Deaths per 1,000 people

20.5

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

428

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

372

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	141.27	161.70	45.7	43.1
1-4	29.95	30.02	51.4	49.4
5-9	9.14	9.30	53.7	51.4
10-14	4.92	4.76	51.1	48.8
15-19	5.28	5.61	47.3	44.9
20-24	6.15	7.94	43.5	41.1
25-29	7.19	8.41	39.8	37.6
30-34	8.29	8.98	36.1	34.2
35-39	9.47	10.14	32.5	30.6
40-44	10.62	12.26	29.0	27.1
45-49	11.65	14.73	25.4	23.6
50-54	14.60	18.83	21.8	20.2
55-59	19.75	24.60	18.3	17.0
60-64	29.05	34.73	14.9	13.9
65-69	44.48	50.70	11.8	11.0
70-74	69.47	78.14	9.1	8.5
75-79	105.96	119.05	6.9	6.4
80-84	162.73	182.13	5.1	4.7
85-89	237.07	272.52	3.8	3.4
90-94	347.27	406.97	2.8	2.4
95-99	465.81	546.94	2.1	1.8
100+	599.52	686.34	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Burundi by year

Mortality in Burundi, 1978

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