Ghana Mortality 2000: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Ghana was 58.1 years in 2000: 59.3 for women and 56.9 for men, a gap of 2.4 years. 196,202 people died; 20.0% of them were 65 or older and 34.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2000

Life expectancy at birth

58.1

Women

59.3

Men

56.9

Life expectancy at 65

13.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

64.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

99.6

Deaths

196,202

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.0

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

307

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

272

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2000's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2000

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	60.87	74.15	59.3	56.9
1-4	9.08	10.18	62.0	60.2
5-9	4.84	4.48	60.2	58.6
10-14	2.71	2.56	56.6	54.9
15-19	3.24	3.50	52.4	50.6
20-24	3.93	5.01	48.2	46.4
25-29	4.59	5.25	44.1	42.6
30-34	5.23	5.64	40.0	38.6
35-39	6.01	6.33	36.0	34.6
40-44	7.13	7.71	32.1	30.7
45-49	8.11	9.51	28.1	26.8
50-54	10.70	13.07	24.2	23.0
55-59	14.43	17.26	20.4	19.3
60-64	21.80	25.54	16.7	15.9
65-69	34.28	38.52	13.3	12.7
70-74	54.91	60.12	10.4	9.8
75-79	86.50	94.33	7.9	7.4
80-84	137.23	147.81	5.8	5.4
85-89	205.93	228.61	4.3	3.9
90-94	297.46	352.85	3.1	2.7
95-99	429.27	490.54	2.3	2.0
100+	566.93	640.49	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Ghana by year

Mortality in Ghana, 2000

Year

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