Life expectancy at birth in Eritrea was 30.4 years in 1957: 32.2 for women and 28.7 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 30,545 people died; 10.1% of them were 65 or older and 53.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

30.4

Women

32.2

Men

28.7

Life expectancy at 65

9.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

221.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

378.1

Deaths

30,545

Deaths per 1,000 people

33.2

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

595

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

525

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	232.93	287.43	32.2	28.7
1-4	54.91	60.06	39.2	36.7
5-9	17.71	17.97	44.3	42.0
10-14	9.47	9.42	43.1	40.7
15-19	8.77	9.12	40.1	37.6
20-24	9.85	12.36	36.8	34.2
25-29	11.39	13.19	33.5	31.2
30-34	13.20	14.33	30.3	28.2
35-39	15.22	16.56	27.2	25.1
40-44	16.88	20.16	24.2	22.0
45-49	18.72	24.49	21.1	19.1
50-54	23.18	30.45	17.9	16.3
55-59	31.59	39.67	14.8	13.5
60-64	45.77	54.36	11.9	10.9
65-69	68.23	77.52	9.4	8.6
70-74	103.05	117.33	7.2	6.5
75-79	148.36	170.74	5.5	4.9
80-84	222.63	257.22	4.0	3.5
85-89	320.77	395.96	2.9	2.4
90-94	466.54	558.88	2.1	1.8
95-99	611.35	723.00	1.6	1.4
100+	701.26	814.66	1.4	1.2

Mortality in Eritrea by year

Mortality in Eritrea, 1957

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