Mortality in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015

Democratic Republic of the Congo
2015
Life expectancy: 58.7
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 Democratic Republic of the Congo was 58.7 years in 2015: 60.4 for women and 56.9 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 838,652 people died; 19.8% of them were 65 or older and 38.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
58.7
Women
60.4
Men
56.9
Life expectancy at 65
13.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
62.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
95.7
Deaths
838,652
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
312
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
258
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2015'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
058.7371.5060.456.9
1-48.699.6763.060.1
5-94.304.5761.158.4
10-142.462.6257.454.6
15-192.973.5953.150.3
20-243.645.1648.946.2
25-294.255.4144.742.3
30-344.835.7940.638.4
35-395.556.4836.534.5
40-446.677.8832.530.5
45-497.659.7028.526.7
50-5410.1913.2724.522.9
55-5913.7617.5220.719.3
60-6420.8825.8517.015.8
65-6933.0138.9313.512.6
70-7453.1460.7010.59.8
75-7984.2195.098.07.4
80-84134.40148.895.95.4
85-89202.84230.054.33.9
90-94294.61354.773.22.7
95-99427.32492.722.32.0
100+566.86642.721.81.6