Mortality in Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2021

Democratic Republic of the Congo
2021
Life expectancy: 60.0
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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-5 -1   2021  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Democratic Republic of the Congo was 60.0 years in 2021: 62.1 for women and 58.0 for men, a gap of 4.1 years. 929,997 people died; 22.6% of them were 65 or older and 34.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
60.0
Women
62.1
Men
58.0
Life expectancy at 65
12.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
52.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
78.2
Deaths
929,997
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
322
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
253
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2021'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
048.6759.8362.158.0
1-46.557.4764.260.5
5-93.413.9361.858.3
10-142.002.3257.954.4
15-192.493.3353.450.0
20-243.104.8749.145.8
25-293.625.1344.841.9
30-344.245.6440.637.9
35-395.136.5536.433.9
40-446.608.3132.229.9
45-497.9410.4928.226.1
50-5410.8314.4524.322.4
55-5914.4118.7720.518.9
60-6421.5927.3516.815.5
65-6933.5940.9513.512.3
70-7453.0663.1510.59.6
75-7983.6697.317.97.2
80-84135.94151.325.75.3
85-89219.16243.444.03.7
90-94332.23387.532.82.5
95-99506.99575.301.91.7
100+732.71984.931.41.0