Mortality in Kenya, 1960

Kenya
1960
Life expectancy: 48.5
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 Kenya was 48.5 years in 1960: 49.9 for women and 47.2 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 144,628 people died; 15.2% of them were 65 or older and 55.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
48.5
Women
49.9
Men
47.2
Life expectancy at 65
11.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
112.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
197.5
Deaths
144,628
Deaths per 1,000 people
18.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
395
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
343
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1960'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
0113.82131.2649.947.2
1-424.8725.9454.852.7
5-95.926.1256.354.2
10-143.703.6152.950.8
15-194.244.3348.846.7
20-245.556.1944.842.6
25-296.657.0141.038.9
30-347.498.0037.335.2
35-398.459.5133.731.5
40-449.4611.2930.027.9
45-4910.6413.6826.324.4
50-5413.5817.6222.621.0
55-5917.8722.7019.017.7
60-6426.7932.4615.614.5
65-6940.8147.3912.411.6
70-7464.2172.259.79.0
75-7997.67109.497.46.9
80-84145.19162.725.65.2
85-89212.59235.634.23.9
90-94296.40322.623.23.0
95-99399.64428.372.42.3
100+518.11543.421.91.8