Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Congo

1954

Life expectancy: 42.6

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Congo was 42.6 years in 1954: 43.9 for women and 41.3 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 19,779 people died; 12.4% of them were 65 or older and 49.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

42.6

Women

43.9

Men

41.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

124.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

245.6

Deaths

19,779

Deaths per 1,000 people

21.7

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

473

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

415

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	127.19	146.27	43.9	41.3
1-4	37.16	38.53	48.7	46.6
5-9	8.43	8.78	52.1	50.0
10-14	5.09	5.02	49.3	47.1
15-19	5.62	5.77	45.5	43.2
20-24	7.47	8.40	41.7	39.4
25-29	9.09	9.74	38.2	36.0
30-34	10.16	11.12	34.8	32.7
35-39	11.25	13.00	31.5	29.4
40-44	12.23	14.87	28.2	26.2
45-49	13.33	17.25	24.8	23.1
50-54	16.64	21.30	21.4	19.9
55-59	21.49	26.38	18.0	16.9
60-64	31.82	36.82	14.8	13.9
65-69	47.03	52.33	11.9	11.2
70-74	70.20	77.12	9.4	8.8
75-79	101.82	112.83	7.3	6.8
80-84	147.62	163.34	5.5	5.2
85-89	216.16	233.46	4.1	3.9
90-94	301.73	316.19	3.1	3.0
95-99	407.05	416.61	2.4	2.3
100+	527.73	526.82	1.9	1.9

Mortality in Congo by year

Mortality in Congo, 1954

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