Mortality in Congo, 2010

Congo
2010
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 Congo was 61.7 years in 2010: 62.9 for women and 60.6 for men, a gap of 2.3 years. 36,726 people died; 24.7% of them were 65 or older and 28.7% 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
62.9
Men
60.6
Life expectancy at 65
12.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
43.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
63.6
Deaths
36,726
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
311
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
281
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2010'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
040.6749.4962.960.6
1-45.085.5764.462.6
5-91.461.6661.760.0
10-141.151.2657.255.5
15-191.812.1052.550.8
20-242.733.2447.946.3
25-293.724.0043.642.0
30-344.794.9839.337.8
35-396.156.4535.233.7
40-447.648.3131.229.7
45-499.5910.8827.425.9
50-5412.6314.6923.622.2
55-5916.7819.7119.918.7
60-6424.2028.3916.515.4
65-6936.1541.9813.212.3
70-7455.9365.1410.49.6
75-7986.2899.377.97.3
80-84133.17148.655.95.6
85-89203.30212.984.34.2
90-94295.87293.223.23.2
95-99412.09389.812.42.5
100+548.49501.231.82.0