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

Mali

1978

Life expectancy: 38.8

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

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-5 -1 1978 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Mali was 38.8 years in 1978: 39.4 for women and 38.2 for men, a gap of 1.2 years. 192,031 people died; 11.7% of them were 65 or older and 59.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

38.8

Women

39.4

Men

38.2

Life expectancy at 65

10.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

150.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

320.5

Deaths

192,031

Deaths per 1,000 people

26.6

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

437

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

399

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	156.05	177.81	39.4	38.2
1-4	57.50	58.22	44.8	44.3
5-9	8.47	7.48	51.6	51.2
10-14	4.63	3.75	48.8	48.0
15-19	6.52	5.70	44.9	43.9
20-24	8.19	8.70	41.3	40.1
25-29	8.94	8.65	37.9	36.8
30-34	9.28	8.90	34.5	33.3
35-39	10.01	9.98	31.0	29.7
40-44	10.56	12.14	27.5	26.1
45-49	11.56	14.73	23.8	22.5
50-54	15.39	19.43	20.1	19.1
55-59	21.33	26.52	16.5	15.8
60-64	35.06	39.64	13.1	12.6
65-69	55.20	59.07	10.1	9.8
70-74	91.04	93.89	7.5	7.4
75-79	146.45	149.24	5.4	5.4
80-84	233.01	233.45	3.8	3.8
85-89	358.56	368.71	2.7	2.6
90-94	497.89	517.85	2.0	1.9
95-99	643.84	671.68	1.6	1.5
100+	782.84	799.87	1.3	1.3

Mortality in Mali by year

Mortality in Mali, 1978

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