Mortality in Lesotho, 2020

Lesotho
2020
Life expectancy: 55.1
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   2020  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Lesotho was 55.1 years in 2020: 57.7 for women and 52.5 for men, a gap of 5.2 years. 26,575 people died; 25.0% of them were 65 or older and 16.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
55.1
Women
57.7
Men
52.5
Life expectancy at 65
12.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
59.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
76.3
Deaths
26,575
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.9
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
516
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
412
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2020'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
056.8568.6857.752.5
1-44.414.4060.055.2
5-91.361.5357.052.1
10-141.201.3952.447.5
15-192.452.9047.742.8
20-244.055.3943.338.4
25-296.467.3339.134.4
30-348.6310.5335.330.6
35-3910.7114.4931.727.1
40-4412.7018.4128.323.9
45-4916.0423.3825.021.0
50-5419.9027.4221.918.3
55-5925.1934.7618.915.6
60-6432.7148.6616.113.1
65-6943.7861.9313.511.0
70-7455.3577.9911.39.1
75-7971.24102.659.17.3
80-84102.77145.656.95.6
85-89166.74212.515.04.2
90-94253.33300.423.63.1
95-99367.06405.212.62.4
100+505.51527.012.01.9