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

Mauritania

1978

Life expectancy: 52.3

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Mauritania was 52.3 years in 1978: 54.2 for women and 50.5 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 20,365 people died; 15.2% of them were 65 or older and 52.9% 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

52.3

Women

54.2

Men

50.5

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

119.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

175.7

Deaths

20,365

Deaths per 1,000 people

14.6

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

339

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

281

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	117.78	141.54	54.2	50.6
1-4	16.46	17.06	59.8	57.0
5-9	3.68	4.21	59.7	56.9
10-14	2.27	2.61	55.8	53.0
15-19	3.01	3.79	51.4	48.7
20-24	3.72	5.27	47.1	44.6
25-29	4.25	5.14	43.0	40.7
30-34	5.00	5.50	38.9	36.7
35-39	5.96	6.61	34.8	32.6
40-44	7.21	8.42	30.7	28.6
45-49	8.69	11.10	26.8	24.8
50-54	11.75	15.38	22.9	21.0
55-59	16.23	21.49	19.1	17.5
60-64	25.60	32.32	15.5	14.2
65-69	39.74	48.38	12.2	11.3
70-74	65.84	75.81	9.4	8.7
75-79	103.55	116.17	7.1	6.5
80-84	157.59	176.17	5.3	4.8
85-89	230.18	257.91	3.9	3.6
90-94	317.60	352.94	3.0	2.7
95-99	433.17	476.27	2.3	2.1
100+	557.26	602.95	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Mauritania by year

Mortality in Mauritania, 1978

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