Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Kenya

1971

Life expectancy: 54.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Kenya was 54.5 years in 1971: 56.1 for women and 53.2 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 155,763 people died; 12.7% of them were 65 or older and 55.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1971

Life expectancy at birth

54.5

Women

56.1

Men

53.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

90.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

146.3

Deaths

155,763

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.2

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

336

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

285

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1971's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1971

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	89.17	103.65	56.1	53.2
1-4	15.61	16.39	60.2	57.8
5-9	3.89	4.07	59.9	57.6
10-14	2.54	2.53	56.1	53.7
15-19	3.07	3.25	51.8	49.4
20-24	4.02	4.62	47.5	45.2
25-29	4.82	5.20	43.4	41.2
30-34	5.54	5.99	39.4	37.2
35-39	6.45	7.28	35.5	33.2
40-44	7.49	8.95	31.6	29.4
45-49	8.75	11.29	27.7	25.6
50-54	11.46	15.08	23.8	21.9
55-59	15.36	20.05	20.0	18.4
60-64	23.23	29.21	16.4	15.1
65-69	35.91	43.26	13.1	12.1
70-74	57.72	66.67	10.2	9.4
75-79	89.80	102.14	7.8	7.2
80-84	136.01	153.70	5.9	5.4
85-89	201.45	224.70	4.4	4.0
90-94	284.06	310.74	3.3	3.1
95-99	386.53	415.88	2.5	2.4
100+	505.74	531.83	2.0	1.9

Mortality in Kenya by year

Mortality in Kenya, 1971

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