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

Mali

1972

Life expectancy: 34.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Mali was 34.5 years in 1972: 35.7 for women and 33.4 for men, a gap of 2.3 years. 197,226 people died; 10.0% of them were 65 or older and 59.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1972

Life expectancy at birth

34.5

Women

35.7

Men

33.4

Life expectancy at 65

9.4

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

162.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

372.1

Deaths

197,226

Deaths per 1,000 people

30.4

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

494

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

424

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1972's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1972

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	170.01	194.49	35.7	33.4
1-4	74.40	76.38	41.1	39.3
5-9	9.37	9.39	50.2	48.1
10-14	5.12	4.62	47.5	45.3
15-19	7.16	7.01	43.7	41.3
20-24	8.98	10.68	40.2	37.7
25-29	9.78	10.65	36.9	34.6
30-34	10.16	10.78	33.6	31.4
35-39	10.92	12.01	30.2	28.0
40-44	11.43	14.47	26.8	24.6
45-49	12.44	17.32	23.2	21.2
50-54	16.52	22.56	19.5	17.9
55-59	22.86	30.47	16.0	14.7
60-64	37.63	45.46	12.6	11.8
65-69	59.07	67.50	9.7	9.1
70-74	97.03	106.64	7.2	6.8
75-79	155.31	167.78	5.2	4.9
80-84	245.53	259.51	3.7	3.5
85-89	374.58	402.79	2.6	2.4
90-94	515.36	556.18	1.9	1.8
95-99	659.28	705.91	1.5	1.4
100+	795.74	848.61	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Mali by year

Mortality in Mali, 1972

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