Kenya Mortality 1950: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Kenya

1950

Life expectancy: 36.9

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1950 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Kenya was 36.9 years in 1950: 38.2 for women and 35.8 for men, a gap of 2.4 years. 175,894 people died; 17.0% of them were 65 or older and 54.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1950

Life expectancy at birth

36.9

Women

38.2

Men

35.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

154.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

320.5

Deaths

175,894

Deaths per 1,000 people

30.5

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

489

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

437

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1950

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	160.47	184.76	38.2	35.8
1-4	55.04	57.48	43.6	41.7
5-9	12.11	12.47	49.6	47.8
10-14	6.86	6.66	47.6	45.7
15-19	6.91	7.02	44.2	42.2
20-24	8.70	9.84	40.6	38.6
25-29	10.13	10.85	37.3	35.4
30-34	10.96	11.89	34.1	32.3
35-39	11.85	13.49	30.9	29.1
40-44	12.74	15.16	27.7	25.9
45-49	13.72	17.41	24.3	22.8
50-54	17.25	21.54	20.9	19.6
55-59	22.49	26.76	17.5	16.6
60-64	33.90	37.66	14.3	13.6
65-69	50.35	54.10	11.5	10.9
70-74	74.94	80.54	9.0	8.5
75-79	107.35	118.69	7.0	6.5
80-84	153.52	172.05	5.4	5.0
85-89	222.58	246.71	4.1	3.7
90-94	307.27	334.49	3.1	2.9
95-99	411.02	440.62	2.4	2.2
100+	528.65	554.60	1.9	1.8

Mortality in Kenya by year

Mortality in Kenya, 1950

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