Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Mortality in Ethiopia, 2011

Ethiopia
2011
Life expectancy: 60.6
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Ethiopia was 60.6 years in 2011: 62.8 for women and 58.4 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 794,916 people died; 20.4% of them were 65 or older and 32.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
60.6
Women
62.8
Men
58.4
Life expectancy at 65
13.3
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
52.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
78.3
Deaths
794,916
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
304
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
237
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2011's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
047.8460.7962.858.4
1-46.367.5964.961.0
5-93.634.2962.558.9
10-142.102.5158.655.1
15-192.613.4654.250.7
20-243.234.9649.946.6
25-293.795.1945.642.7
30-344.285.5741.538.7
35-394.936.2437.334.8
40-446.037.6133.230.8
45-496.999.3929.126.9
50-549.4612.9225.123.0
55-5912.7717.0821.119.4
60-6419.5325.2917.415.9
65-6931.1138.1913.912.7
70-7450.4459.6210.89.9
75-7980.6793.638.27.4
80-84129.84146.856.05.4
85-89197.49227.334.43.9
90-94288.95351.213.22.7
95-99422.03488.482.32.0
100+562.87638.161.81.6