Life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia was 38.4 years in 1986: 40.1 for women and 36.6 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 1,063,067 people died; 9.5% of them were 65 or older and 55.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1986

Life expectancy at birth

38.4

Women

40.1

Men

36.6

Life expectancy at 65

10.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

167.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

291.6

Deaths

1,063,067

Deaths per 1,000 people

25.9

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

503

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

422

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1986's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1986

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	173.61	202.25	40.1	36.6
1-4	40.41	41.94	46.5	43.5
5-9	12.43	13.18	50.2	47.0
10-14	6.87	7.11	48.3	45.0
15-19	6.23	7.01	44.9	41.6
20-24	7.08	9.50	41.2	38.0
25-29	8.14	10.12	37.6	34.7
30-34	9.34	10.99	34.1	31.4
35-39	10.74	12.62	30.6	28.0
40-44	12.30	15.36	27.2	24.7
45-49	13.91	18.72	23.7	21.4
50-54	17.77	23.91	20.2	18.3
55-59	24.11	31.16	16.9	15.3
60-64	35.29	43.43	13.7	12.5
65-69	53.18	62.74	10.9	9.9
70-74	80.62	94.32	8.5	7.6
75-79	116.06	136.01	6.5	5.8
80-84	179.38	209.74	4.7	4.1
85-89	267.23	324.87	3.4	2.9
90-94	396.67	491.87	2.4	2.0
95-99	534.41	632.57	1.9	1.6
100+	672.27	747.89	1.5	1.3

Mortality in Ethiopia by year

Mortality in Ethiopia, 1986

Year

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