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

Mortality in Malawi, 2011

Malawi
2011
Life expectancy: 58.9
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Malawi was 58.9 years in 2011: 61.2 for women and 56.5 for men, a gap of 4.7 years. 151,724 people died; 29.5% of them were 65 or older and 30.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
58.9
Women
61.2
Men
56.5
Life expectancy at 65
12.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
54.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
75.7
Deaths
151,724
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.9
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
397
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
314
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2011'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
050.7062.8061.256.5
1-45.356.1063.359.1
5-91.531.8660.656.5
10-141.231.4756.152.0
15-192.022.5451.447.4
20-243.124.1146.943.0
25-294.365.4242.638.8
30-345.657.0638.534.8
35-397.239.3234.530.9
40-448.8811.8930.727.3
45-4911.0315.2127.023.8
50-5414.2919.8223.420.5
55-5918.7225.6819.917.4
60-6426.5835.8416.614.4
65-6938.0249.4613.611.7
70-7454.3569.8910.99.3
75-7978.13101.428.67.2
80-84115.34149.936.55.5
85-89177.03219.774.84.1
90-94257.03304.723.63.1
95-99358.31408.842.72.4
100+477.40524.272.11.9