Liberia Mortality 2018: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Liberia was 61.0 years in 2018: 62.2 for women and 59.8 for men, a gap of 2.4 years. 42,724 people died; 27.3% of them were 65 or older and 30.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2018

Life expectancy at birth

61.0

Women

62.2

Men

59.8

Life expectancy at 65

12.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

63.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

81.4

Deaths

42,724

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.6

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

294

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

256

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2018's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2018

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	60.19	72.28	62.2	59.8
1-4	4.72	5.11	65.0	63.2
5-9	1.44	1.59	62.2	60.5
10-14	1.13	1.23	57.6	55.9
15-19	1.73	2.08	52.9	51.3
20-24	2.39	3.06	48.4	46.8
25-29	3.02	3.52	43.9	42.5
30-34	3.82	4.23	39.5	38.2
35-39	4.96	5.45	35.2	33.9
40-44	6.46	7.24	31.1	29.8
45-49	8.52	9.93	27.0	25.8
50-54	11.78	14.13	23.1	22.0
55-59	16.33	19.90	19.3	18.4
60-64	24.42	29.57	15.7	15.1
65-69	38.16	43.79	12.4	12.1
70-74	62.94	66.59	9.5	9.4
75-79	101.12	102.08	7.1	7.1
80-84	156.19	155.06	5.3	5.3
85-89	232.79	229.65	3.9	3.9
90-94	330.59	321.09	2.9	3.0
95-99	450.47	432.63	2.2	2.3
100+	585.62	554.32	1.7	1.8

Mortality in Liberia by year

Mortality in Liberia, 2018

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