Mortality in Gambia, 2024

Gambia
2024
Life expectancy: 66.1
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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-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Gambia is projected at 66.1 years in 2024: 67.8 for women and 64.4 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 17,247 people are projected to die; 27.8% of them would be 65 or older and 20.4% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
66.1
Women
67.8
Men
64.4
Life expectancy at 65
14.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
28.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
43.1
Deaths
17,247
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
244
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
194
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2024'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
025.7533.3667.864.4
1-43.393.9968.565.5
5-92.372.6065.462.5
10-141.411.6461.258.3
15-191.892.5456.653.8
20-242.413.6552.149.4
25-292.843.8147.745.3
30-343.184.1143.341.1
35-393.684.6039.036.9
40-444.725.6734.732.7
45-495.647.1530.428.6
50-547.9210.3826.224.5
55-5910.7213.8722.220.7
60-6416.7121.2518.317.0
65-6927.1232.8114.613.6
70-7444.7751.7711.410.6
75-7973.1082.968.68.0
80-84120.04132.406.35.8
85-89185.92208.794.64.2
90-94276.64329.873.32.9
95-99410.50466.692.42.1
100+551.00593.301.81.7