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

Madagascar

1998

Life expectancy: 56.8

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Madagascar was 56.8 years in 1998: 58.2 for women and 55.4 for men, a gap of 2.8 years. 174,328 people died; 17.1% of them were 65 or older and 43.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1998

Life expectancy at birth

56.8

Women

58.2

Men

55.4

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

72.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

114.9

Deaths

174,328

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.3

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

318

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

273

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1998

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	70.49	83.31	58.2	55.5
1-4	11.24	12.04	61.4	59.2
5-9	4.85	4.85	60.1	58.0
10-14	2.76	2.73	56.5	54.3
15-19	3.26	3.67	52.3	50.1
20-24	3.96	5.25	48.1	45.9
25-29	4.62	5.51	44.0	42.1
30-34	5.27	5.90	40.0	38.2
35-39	6.05	6.63	36.0	34.3
40-44	7.17	8.08	32.0	30.3
45-49	8.15	9.94	28.1	26.5
50-54	10.76	13.55	24.1	22.7
55-59	14.51	17.88	20.3	19.1
60-64	21.92	26.32	16.7	15.7
65-69	34.46	39.57	13.3	12.5
70-74	55.20	61.68	10.3	9.7
75-79	86.93	96.49	7.8	7.3
80-84	137.87	150.81	5.8	5.3
85-89	206.83	232.47	4.3	3.8
90-94	298.72	357.65	3.1	2.7
95-99	430.77	495.51	2.3	2.0
100+	568.80	644.50	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Madagascar by year

Mortality in Madagascar, 1998

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