Gabon Mortality 2017: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Gabon was 66.8 years in 2017: 69.2 for women and 64.7 for men, a gap of 4.5 years. 14,922 people died; 37.8% of them were 65 or older and 19.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2017

Life expectancy at birth

66.8

Women

69.2

Men

64.7

Life expectancy at 65

14.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

33.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

45.4

Deaths

14,922

Deaths per 1,000 people

6.9

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

257

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

180

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2017

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	30.72	38.66	69.2	64.7
1-4	2.97	3.10	70.3	66.2
5-9	0.88	1.01	67.1	63.0
10-14	0.67	0.84	62.4	58.3
15-19	1.03	1.53	57.6	53.5
20-24	1.40	2.29	52.9	48.9
25-29	1.77	2.71	48.3	44.5
30-34	2.28	3.36	43.7	40.0
35-39	3.07	4.46	39.1	35.7
40-44	4.17	6.10	34.7	31.4
45-49	5.76	8.59	30.4	27.3
50-54	8.31	12.44	26.2	23.4
55-59	11.93	17.78	22.2	19.7
60-64	18.39	26.55	18.4	16.3
65-69	28.30	38.81	14.9	13.3
70-74	44.30	56.65	11.8	10.6
75-79	68.68	83.09	9.1	8.2
80-84	107.32	124.25	6.8	6.2
85-89	167.14	186.47	5.0	4.6
90-94	246.02	267.47	3.7	3.5
95-99	347.75	367.04	2.8	2.6
100+	472.12	483.56	2.1	2.1

Mortality in Gabon by year

Mortality in Gabon, 2017

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