Mortality in Malawi, 2022

Malawi
2022
Life expectancy: 66.0
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Malawi was 66.0 years in 2022: 69.4 for women and 62.7 for men, a gap of 6.7 years. 119,361 people died; 32.1% of them were 65 or older and 22.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
66.0
Women
69.4
Men
62.7
Life expectancy at 65
13.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
30.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
40.6
Deaths
119,361
Deaths per 1,000 people
5.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
309
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
186
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2022'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
027.4635.3869.462.7
1-42.412.8070.363.9
5-90.760.9667.060.6
10-140.600.8362.255.9
15-190.931.6157.451.1
20-241.272.5452.646.5
25-291.613.2148.042.1
30-342.164.2043.337.7
35-393.035.8238.833.4
40-444.308.1034.329.3
45-496.1711.2330.025.5
50-548.9515.6125.921.8
55-5912.7021.4221.918.3
60-6419.2230.7518.215.1
65-6929.0644.0514.812.2
70-7444.6865.1611.79.6
75-7968.9897.409.07.4
80-84108.30146.586.75.5
85-89177.34223.454.84.0
90-94265.14312.693.53.0
95-99377.04419.142.62.3
100+503.25532.062.01.9