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

Malawi

2003

Life expectancy: 49.6

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

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-5 -1 2003 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Malawi was 49.6 years in 2003: 51.3 for women and 47.9 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 193,728 people died; 21.9% of them were 65 or older and 35.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2003

Life expectancy at birth

49.6

Women

51.3

Men

47.9

Life expectancy at 65

11.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

87.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

132.6

Deaths

193,728

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.9

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

521

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

457

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2003's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2003

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	85.11	101.27	51.3	47.9
1-4	12.20	13.32	54.8	51.9
5-9	3.22	3.72	53.4	50.6
10-14	2.46	2.71	49.3	46.5
15-19	3.79	4.16	44.8	42.1
20-24	6.05	6.83	40.6	37.9
25-29	8.63	9.23	36.8	34.2
30-34	10.89	11.95	33.3	30.7
35-39	13.20	15.27	30.0	27.4
40-44	15.02	18.36	26.9	24.4
45-49	17.18	21.88	23.8	21.5
50-54	20.95	26.70	20.7	18.6
55-59	26.14	32.56	17.8	16.0
60-64	35.94	43.84	14.9	13.3
65-69	49.38	58.13	12.3	11.0
70-74	66.01	78.01	10.1	8.9
75-79	88.18	108.16	8.1	7.0
80-84	123.56	155.87	6.3	5.3
85-89	186.63	227.95	4.6	4.0
90-94	266.98	314.81	3.5	3.0
95-99	367.70	421.06	2.6	2.3
100+	484.92	537.52	2.1	1.9

Mortality in Malawi by year

Mortality in Malawi, 2003

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