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

Malawi

1953

Life expectancy: 33.2

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

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Malawi was 33.2 years in 1953: 34.9 for women and 31.4 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 97,195 people died; 8.6% of them were 65 or older and 60.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

33.2

Women

34.9

Men

31.4

Life expectancy at 65

10.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

181.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

382.3

Deaths

97,195

Deaths per 1,000 people

31.2

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

481

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

414

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	191.05	224.38	34.9	31.4
1-4	69.22	77.14	40.9	37.9
5-9	15.05	16.07	49.0	46.5
10-14	8.11	8.08	47.7	45.2
15-19	7.51	7.94	44.6	42.0
20-24	8.85	10.68	41.2	38.6
25-29	9.72	11.12	37.9	35.6
30-34	10.13	11.64	34.7	32.5
35-39	10.70	12.82	31.4	29.3
40-44	11.44	14.25	27.9	26.0
45-49	12.25	16.32	24.4	22.8
50-54	15.60	20.40	20.8	19.5
55-59	20.64	25.64	17.3	16.3
60-64	31.88	36.60	13.9	13.2
65-69	50.00	54.70	10.9	10.4
70-74	82.32	87.38	8.3	7.8
75-79	126.86	137.07	6.2	5.8
80-84	183.96	204.59	4.7	4.3
85-89	255.90	291.57	3.6	3.2
90-94	337.89	389.28	2.8	2.5
95-99	435.71	506.34	2.3	2.0
100+	542.45	626.10	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Malawi by year

Mortality in Malawi, 1953

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