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

Kenya

1999

Life expectancy: 55.9

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

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-5 -1 1999 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Kenya was 55.9 years in 1999: 56.6 for women and 55.0 for men, a gap of 1.6 years. 300,580 people died; 15.1% of them were 65 or older and 38.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1999

Life expectancy at birth

55.9

Women

56.6

Men

55.0

Life expectancy at 65

12.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

65.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

98.5

Deaths

300,580

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.1

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

393

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

384

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1999's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1999

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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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	62.66	75.21	56.6	55.0
1-4	8.60	9.42	59.2	58.2
5-9	2.34	2.64	57.2	56.4
10-14	1.82	1.91	52.9	52.1
15-19	2.88	2.94	48.3	47.6
20-24	4.54	4.59	44.0	43.3
25-29	6.43	5.78	40.0	39.2
30-34	8.18	7.24	36.2	35.3
35-39	10.08	9.27	32.6	31.5
40-44	11.75	11.59	29.1	27.9
45-49	13.81	14.60	25.7	24.4
50-54	17.18	18.97	22.4	21.0
55-59	21.79	24.55	19.2	17.9
60-64	30.31	34.54	16.1	14.9
65-69	42.21	47.63	13.3	12.2
70-74	57.31	65.80	10.9	9.8
75-79	77.97	92.65	8.7	7.7
80-84	112.31	135.53	6.7	5.9
85-89	172.76	201.91	4.9	4.4
90-94	251.30	286.15	3.6	3.3
95-99	352.08	390.05	2.7	2.5
100+	476.01	511.22	2.1	2.0

Mortality in Kenya by year

Mortality in Kenya, 1999

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