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

Mauritania

1983

Life expectancy: 54.6

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Life expectancy at birth in Mauritania was 54.6 years in 1983: 56.4 for women and 52.8 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 20,852 people died; 17.5% of them were 65 or older and 49.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1983

Life expectancy at birth

54.6

Women

56.4

Men

52.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

104.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

149.9

Deaths

20,852

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.0

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

327

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

271

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1983's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1983

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	102.07	122.97	56.4	52.8
1-4	12.85	13.35	61.3	58.5
5-9	3.16	3.55	60.4	57.6
10-14	2.03	2.27	56.3	53.6
15-19	2.78	3.47	51.9	49.2
20-24	3.45	4.81	47.6	45.0
25-29	3.95	4.69	43.4	41.1
30-34	4.66	5.05	39.2	37.0
35-39	5.61	6.15	35.0	32.9
40-44	6.87	7.94	31.0	28.8
45-49	8.44	10.68	27.0	24.9
50-54	11.47	15.03	23.0	21.1
55-59	15.94	21.33	19.2	17.5
60-64	25.00	32.27	15.6	14.2
65-69	38.99	48.51	12.3	11.3
70-74	64.72	75.77	9.4	8.7
75-79	102.47	116.03	7.1	6.5
80-84	156.52	175.35	5.3	4.9
85-89	229.57	256.92	3.9	3.6
90-94	317.72	352.06	3.0	2.7
95-99	433.49	474.25	2.3	2.1
100+	558.94	600.64	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Mauritania by year

Mortality in Mauritania, 1983

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