Life expectancy at birth in Equatorial Guinea was 42.3 years in 1978: 45.5 for women and 39.3 for men, a gap of 6.3 years. 6,265 people died; 17.0% of them were 65 or older and 42.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

42.3

Women

45.5

Men

39.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

137.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

230.2

Deaths

6,265

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.7

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

534

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

390

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	140.95	163.33	45.5	39.3
1-4	27.67	29.93	51.2	45.0
5-9	8.64	9.64	53.0	46.4
10-14	6.30	7.14	50.2	43.6
15-19	6.66	8.30	46.7	40.1
20-24	7.52	11.54	43.2	36.7
25-29	8.55	13.11	39.8	33.7
30-34	9.28	14.21	36.4	30.8
35-39	10.30	16.22	33.0	27.9
40-44	11.11	17.34	29.6	25.1
45-49	12.13	19.55	26.2	22.1
50-54	14.69	23.48	22.6	19.1
55-59	18.47	28.81	19.2	16.2
60-64	26.38	39.07	15.8	13.3
65-69	39.36	55.39	12.7	10.7
70-74	62.11	82.93	9.9	8.3
75-79	94.43	123.13	7.6	6.3
80-84	142.50	182.94	5.7	4.7
85-89	210.51	265.32	4.2	3.5
90-94	294.74	363.57	3.2	2.7
95-99	396.90	484.21	2.5	2.0
100+	503.78	591.65	2.0	1.7

Mortality in Equatorial Guinea by year

Mortality in Equatorial Guinea, 1978

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