Mortality in Cameroon, 1975

Cameroon
1975
Life expectancy: 49.9
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.
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-5 -1   1975  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Cameroon was 49.9 years in 1975: 51.2 for women and 48.6 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 126,364 people died; 17.4% of them were 65 or older and 48.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
49.9
Women
51.2
Men
48.6
Life expectancy at 65
12.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
110.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
191.7
Deaths
126,364
Deaths per 1,000 people
17.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
366
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
321
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1975'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0110.73128.6151.248.6
1-423.5524.9456.054.0
5-95.635.8457.355.5
10-143.513.4153.952.1
15-193.994.0449.847.9
20-245.145.6745.843.8
25-296.086.2841.940.0
30-346.817.0738.136.2
35-397.698.3934.332.4
40-448.6610.0330.628.7
45-499.8012.3026.825.1
50-5412.6116.1023.121.5
55-5916.7121.0519.418.1
60-6425.2530.4715.914.8
65-6938.9045.0312.611.8
70-7462.2769.509.89.2
75-7995.89106.537.57.0
80-84143.21159.855.75.2
85-89209.28232.954.33.9
90-94291.37320.293.23.0
95-99392.31426.992.52.3
100+508.52543.182.01.8