Life expectancy at birth in Gabon was 42.2 years in 1954: 45.0 for women and 39.5 for men, a gap of 5.4 years. 11,077 people died; 26.0% of them were 65 or older and 34.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

42.2

Women

45.0

Men

39.5

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

136.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

266.5

Deaths

11,077

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.8

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

463

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

357

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	136.72	164.25	45.0	39.6
1-4	38.77	44.85	50.4	45.3
5-9	8.78	9.98	54.4	49.7
10-14	5.12	5.51	51.7	47.2
15-19	5.30	6.08	48.0	43.4
20-24	6.59	8.65	44.2	39.7
25-29	7.56	9.70	40.6	36.3
30-34	8.18	10.80	37.1	33.0
35-39	8.91	12.44	33.5	29.7
40-44	9.71	14.16	29.9	26.4
45-49	10.62	16.44	26.3	23.2
50-54	13.51	20.46	22.6	20.0
55-59	17.80	25.54	19.0	16.9
60-64	27.10	35.98	15.5	13.8
65-69	41.39	52.06	12.4	11.0
70-74	64.78	78.83	9.7	8.6
75-79	97.38	117.97	7.5	6.5
80-84	143.27	172.41	5.7	5.0
85-89	208.74	246.18	4.3	3.7
90-94	289.15	332.44	3.3	2.9
95-99	388.25	436.75	2.5	2.2
100+	501.86	549.06	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Gabon by year

Mortality in Gabon, 1954

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