Mortality in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2018

Democratic Republic of the Congo
2018
Life expectancy: 59.9
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.
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 59.9 years in 2018: 61.8 for women and 58.1 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 868,697 people died; 20.8% of them were 65 or older and 37.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
59.9
Women
61.8
Men
58.1
Life expectancy at 65
13.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
56.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
86.5
Deaths
868,697
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
303
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
244
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2018'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
053.5065.3661.858.1
1-47.578.4764.260.9
5-93.844.2362.158.9
10-142.222.4658.255.1
15-192.723.4453.950.8
20-243.364.9849.646.6
25-293.935.2145.342.7
30-344.465.5741.238.8
35-395.136.2237.134.8
40-446.247.5633.030.9
45-497.209.3228.926.9
50-549.6912.8324.923.1
55-5913.0716.9621.019.5
60-6419.9325.1317.316.0
65-6931.6637.9613.812.8
70-7451.2159.2410.79.9
75-7981.6093.058.17.5
80-84130.98146.106.05.5
85-89198.75226.534.43.9
90-94290.12350.513.22.7
95-99422.94488.652.32.0
100+563.19639.841.81.6