Life expectancy at birth in Guinea-Bissau was 42.9 years in 1978: 44.8 for women and 41.1 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 18,421 people died; 17.4% of them were 65 or older and 53.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

42.9

Women

44.8

Men

41.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

139.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

266.6

Deaths

18,421

Deaths per 1,000 people

23.3

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

421

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

350

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	142.45	166.91	44.8	41.1
1-4	38.99	42.54	50.4	47.3
5-9	8.86	9.38	54.5	51.6
10-14	5.14	5.11	51.9	49.0
15-19	5.28	5.53	48.2	45.2
20-24	6.50	7.68	44.4	41.4
25-29	7.38	8.36	40.8	37.9
30-34	7.95	9.17	37.2	34.4
35-39	8.64	10.54	33.6	30.9
40-44	9.43	12.14	30.0	27.5
45-49	10.34	14.35	26.3	24.0
50-54	13.20	18.25	22.6	20.6
55-59	17.46	23.26	18.9	17.3
60-64	26.69	33.30	15.4	14.2
65-69	41.29	48.94	12.3	11.3
70-74	66.18	75.44	9.5	8.7
75-79	101.06	115.39	7.3	6.6
80-84	148.82	172.12	5.5	4.9
85-89	214.39	249.34	4.2	3.7
90-94	293.90	339.84	3.2	2.8
95-99	390.95	449.98	2.5	2.2
100+	501.53	567.60	2.0	1.8

Mortality in Guinea-Bissau by year

Mortality in Guinea-Bissau, 1978

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