Mortality in Gambia, 2019

Gambia
2019
Life expectancy: 64.4
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Gambia was 64.4 years in 2019: 65.9 for women and 62.9 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 16,725 people died; 24.6% of them were 65 or older and 23.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
64.4
Women
65.9
Men
62.9
Life expectancy at 65
13.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
33.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
50.9
Deaths
16,725
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
259
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
214
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2019'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
030.4738.6365.962.9
1-44.214.8466.964.4
5-92.933.0064.061.6
10-141.701.8560.057.5
15-192.222.7855.553.0
20-242.803.9951.048.7
25-293.284.1646.744.6
30-343.694.4842.540.5
35-394.255.0038.236.4
40-445.326.1534.032.2
45-496.267.7029.828.1
50-548.6311.0025.724.2
55-5911.6614.6521.720.4
60-6418.0022.2317.816.7
65-6928.9434.1114.313.4
70-7447.3853.6511.110.4
75-7976.6285.538.47.8
80-84124.66135.826.25.7
85-89191.49213.324.54.1
90-94282.78334.673.32.8
95-99416.58471.722.32.1
100+559.63625.901.81.6