Life expectancy at birth in Eritrea was 30.9 years in 1958: 32.7 for women and 29.2 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 30,331 people died; 10.0% of them were 65 or older and 52.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1958

Life expectancy at birth

30.9

Women

32.7

Men

29.2

Life expectancy at 65

9.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

216.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

370.5

Deaths

30,331

Deaths per 1,000 people

32.5

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

591

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

520

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1958's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1958

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	227.37	279.85	32.7	29.2
1-4	53.28	58.52	39.7	37.1
5-9	17.42	17.73	44.6	42.2
10-14	9.31	9.30	43.4	40.9
15-19	8.64	9.03	40.3	37.7
20-24	9.71	12.25	37.0	34.3
25-29	11.22	13.07	33.7	31.3
30-34	13.01	14.20	30.5	28.3
35-39	14.99	16.39	27.4	25.2
40-44	16.64	19.96	24.4	22.1
45-49	18.46	24.24	21.3	19.2
50-54	22.86	30.16	18.1	16.3
55-59	31.15	39.30	14.9	13.6
60-64	45.14	53.87	12.0	11.0
65-69	67.32	76.86	9.5	8.6
70-74	101.71	116.35	7.3	6.6
75-79	146.56	169.41	5.5	4.9
80-84	219.98	255.48	4.0	3.5
85-89	316.11	391.78	3.0	2.5
90-94	465.49	551.88	2.1	1.8
95-99	608.73	719.83	1.6	1.4
100+	697.50	815.53	1.4	1.2

Mortality in Eritrea by year

Mortality in Eritrea, 1958

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