Mortality in Ghana, 2022

Ghana
2022
Life expectancy: 65.2
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 Ghana was 65.2 years in 2022: 67.6 for women and 63.0 for men, a gap of 4.7 years. 235,197 people died; 31.2% of them were 65 or older and 15.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
65.2
Women
67.6
Men
63.0
Life expectancy at 65
14.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
31.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
42.4
Deaths
235,197
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
269
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
196
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2022'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
028.6636.1467.663.0
1-42.553.0768.664.2
5-92.453.1665.261.0
10-141.442.0061.056.9
15-191.942.9256.452.5
20-242.484.1952.048.2
25-292.914.3847.644.2
30-343.264.7143.240.1
35-393.765.2638.936.0
40-444.806.4534.631.9
45-495.718.0630.427.9
50-548.0011.4226.223.9
55-5910.8215.1722.120.2
60-6416.8322.9018.216.5
65-6927.2735.0114.613.2
70-7444.9854.9611.410.3
75-7973.3887.338.67.7
80-84120.42138.276.35.7
85-89186.42216.564.64.0
90-94277.24338.413.32.8
95-99411.21475.732.42.1
100+555.22629.411.81.6