Mortality in Cameroon, 1950

Cameroon
1950
Life expectancy: 33.1
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1950  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Cameroon was 33.1 years in 1950: 34.6 for women and 31.6 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 127,644 people died; 9.2% of them were 65 or older and 54.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
33.1
Women
34.6
Men
31.6
Life expectancy at 65
11.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
166.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
370.6
Deaths
127,644
Deaths per 1,000 people
29.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
517
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
452
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0174.52202.8034.631.6
1-470.1175.4940.037.3
5-915.1115.9948.045.5
10-148.228.2446.644.0
15-197.828.3543.440.8
20-249.5511.5640.037.4
25-2910.8412.4636.934.5
30-3411.5113.3233.831.6
35-3912.2914.7830.628.6
40-4413.1216.3027.425.6
45-4914.0418.4024.122.5
50-5417.7222.5520.719.5
55-5923.2227.8017.416.5
60-6435.3839.0514.213.6
65-6952.0855.2211.410.9
70-7475.6679.629.18.6
75-79105.55114.787.26.7
80-84148.17165.165.65.1
85-89214.62240.054.23.8
90-94294.56326.913.22.9
95-99392.63433.112.52.3
100+503.30546.002.01.8