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

Middle Africa

1953

Life expectancy: 37.8

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

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 37.8 years in 1953: 39.1 for women and 36.5 for men, a gap of 2.7 years. 737,498 people died; 12.7% of them were 65 or older and 52.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

37.8

Women

39.1

Men

36.5

Life expectancy at 65

10.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

172.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

310.9

Deaths

737,498

Deaths per 1,000 people

26.2

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

481

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

428

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	180.23	210.20	39.1	36.5
1-4	45.47	48.11	45.6	43.6
5-9	11.67	11.81	50.2	48.3
10-14	6.38	6.09	48.0	46.1
15-19	6.60	6.74	44.5	42.5
20-24	7.89	9.49	40.9	38.8
25-29	9.18	10.20	37.5	35.6
30-34	10.30	11.01	34.1	32.3
35-39	11.51	12.49	30.8	29.0
40-44	12.60	14.60	27.4	25.7
45-49	13.70	17.21	24.1	22.5
50-54	17.06	21.55	20.6	19.3
55-59	22.79	27.53	17.2	16.2
60-64	33.78	38.61	14.0	13.2
65-69	51.03	55.93	11.1	10.5
70-74	78.56	85.30	8.6	8.1
75-79	116.95	128.39	6.5	6.1
80-84	174.38	192.97	4.9	4.5
85-89	252.05	285.76	3.6	3.3
90-94	354.42	400.84	2.7	2.4
95-99	469.18	527.38	2.1	1.9
100+	595.77	672.09	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 1953

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