Mortality in Kenya, 2009

Kenya
2009
Life expectancy: 60.5
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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-5 -1   2009  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Kenya was 60.5 years in 2009: 62.1 for women and 58.9 for men, a gap of 3.2 years. 308,379 people died; 18.4% of them were 65 or older and 27.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
60.5
Women
62.1
Men
58.9
Life expectancy at 65
13.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
40.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
56.8
Deaths
308,379
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
385
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
333
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2009'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
037.8745.9662.158.9
1-44.074.4863.460.6
5-91.191.4060.457.7
10-141.031.1655.853.1
15-191.852.1251.148.4
20-243.093.5646.543.9
25-294.594.9542.239.6
30-346.186.7038.135.5
35-398.049.0634.231.6
40-449.8411.6730.528.0
45-4912.1614.9526.924.5
50-5415.4019.3123.521.2
55-5919.7024.7820.118.1
60-6427.1134.2217.015.2
65-6937.7146.0514.012.5
70-7451.5162.3511.410.2
75-7971.4187.609.18.0
80-84104.97129.546.96.1
85-89163.67194.325.14.5
90-94240.71277.773.83.4
95-99340.30380.282.82.6
100+462.28498.412.22.0