Life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia was 42.4 years in 1979: 46.0 for women and 39.0 for men, a gap of 7.0 years. 768,946 people died; 10.3% of them were 65 or older and 53.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1979

Life expectancy at birth

42.4

Women

46.0

Men

39.0

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

143.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

243.3

Deaths

768,946

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.5

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

507

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

363

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1979's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1979

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	142.15	173.49	46.0	39.0
1-4	30.21	32.70	51.8	45.1
5-9	8.78	12.08	54.2	47.1
10-14	4.73	6.25	51.5	44.9
15-19	5.08	7.18	47.7	41.3
20-24	5.94	10.32	43.9	37.7
25-29	6.94	10.93	40.1	34.5
30-34	7.99	11.58	36.5	31.3
35-39	9.13	13.07	32.8	28.0
40-44	10.29	15.68	29.3	24.8
45-49	11.33	18.76	25.7	21.6
50-54	14.25	23.36	22.0	18.5
55-59	19.27	30.44	18.4	15.4
60-64	28.39	42.14	15.1	12.6
65-69	43.56	60.69	12.0	9.9
70-74	68.06	93.43	9.3	7.6
75-79	103.82	140.69	7.0	5.6
80-84	159.80	213.61	5.2	4.1
85-89	233.43	330.39	3.8	2.9
90-94	342.83	461.42	2.8	2.1
95-99	461.00	606.29	2.1	1.6
100+	595.17	742.12	1.7	1.4

Mortality in Ethiopia by year

Mortality in Ethiopia, 1979

Year

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