Life expectancy at birth in Eritrea was 39.2 years in 1964: 41.3 for women and 37.1 for men, a gap of 4.1 years. 25,983 people died; 10.4% of them were 65 or older and 50.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1964

Life expectancy at birth

39.2

Women

41.3

Men

37.1

Life expectancy at 65

10.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

157.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

266.6

Deaths

25,983

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.3

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

513

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

445

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1964's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1964

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	154.05	197.93	41.3	37.2
1-4	32.73	37.45	47.0	43.9
5-9	12.50	12.71	49.2	46.7
10-14	6.45	6.49	47.3	44.6
15-19	6.88	7.28	43.7	41.0
20-24	7.91	10.35	40.2	37.4
25-29	9.25	10.97	36.7	34.3
30-34	10.76	11.70	33.3	31.1
35-39	12.34	13.28	30.0	27.8
40-44	13.53	16.02	26.8	24.5
45-49	14.68	19.21	23.4	21.4
50-54	17.96	23.85	20.0	18.3
55-59	24.42	31.13	16.7	15.3
60-64	35.58	43.04	13.5	12.4
65-69	53.87	61.97	10.7	9.8
70-74	83.38	95.66	8.2	7.4
75-79	125.28	144.25	6.2	5.5
80-84	189.32	218.70	4.6	4.0
85-89	269.95	336.39	3.4	2.8
90-94	386.69	467.49	2.5	2.1
95-99	506.53	609.43	2.0	1.6
100+	631.47	744.38	1.6	1.3

Mortality in Eritrea by year

Mortality in Eritrea, 1964

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