Mortality in Cameroon, 2020

Cameroon
2020
Life expectancy: 61.7
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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Life expectancy at birth in Cameroon was 61.7 years in 2020: 64.0 for women and 59.5 for men, a gap of 4.5 years. 212,482 people died; 25.8% of them were 65 or older and 32.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
61.7
Women
64.0
Men
59.5
Life expectancy at 65
12.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
51.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
74.8
Deaths
212,482
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
307
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
227
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2020'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
048.6359.2664.059.5
1-45.856.4866.162.0
5-91.631.8663.659.6
10-141.171.3659.155.1
15-191.652.2054.550.5
20-242.203.3149.946.0
25-292.463.4745.441.8
30-343.124.2441.037.4
35-394.185.6436.633.2
40-445.597.6632.329.1
45-497.3910.5928.125.1
50-5410.3615.0424.121.3
55-5914.5221.1920.217.8
60-6422.1531.7416.514.5
65-6934.7747.5913.211.6
70-7456.3773.0310.29.0
75-7987.85108.157.76.9
80-84136.38158.425.75.1
85-89225.84248.483.93.7
90-94335.75353.412.82.7
95-99473.07483.122.12.0
100+632.39627.311.61.6