Life expectancy at birth in Gambia was 44.5 years in 1979: 45.6 for women and 43.4 for men, a gap of 2.2 years. 14,450 people died; 14.8% of them were 65 or older and 51.2% 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

44.5

Women

45.6

Men

43.4

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

110.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

235.7

Deaths

14,450

Deaths per 1,000 people

20.9

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

413

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

377

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	109.83	128.55	45.6	43.5
1-4	36.96	40.22	49.8	48.2
5-9	9.39	8.79	53.4	52.2
10-14	5.00	4.50	50.8	49.5
15-19	5.38	5.35	47.0	45.6
20-24	6.25	7.58	43.3	41.7
25-29	7.31	8.02	39.5	38.2
30-34	8.44	8.57	35.9	34.7
35-39	9.66	9.66	32.4	31.1
40-44	10.79	11.67	28.8	27.5
45-49	11.83	14.03	25.3	24.0
50-54	14.79	18.03	21.7	20.6
55-59	20.04	23.54	18.2	17.3
60-64	29.47	33.39	14.8	14.1
65-69	45.04	48.95	11.8	11.2
70-74	70.31	75.58	9.1	8.6
75-79	107.12	115.55	6.9	6.5
80-84	164.22	177.13	5.1	4.8
85-89	238.64	266.01	3.8	3.4
90-94	348.72	398.55	2.8	2.4
95-99	466.29	537.95	2.1	1.8
100+	597.19	678.47	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Gambia by year

Mortality in Gambia, 1979

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