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

Middle Africa

1954

Life expectancy: 38.2

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 38.2 years in 1954: 39.5 for women and 36.9 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 740,635 people died; 12.6% of them were 65 or older and 52.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

38.2

Women

39.5

Men

36.9

Life expectancy at 65

10.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

170.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

306.7

Deaths

740,635

Deaths per 1,000 people

25.8

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

475

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

425

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	178.05	207.53	39.5	36.9
1-4	44.48	47.10	45.9	44.0
5-9	11.47	11.58	50.4	48.6
10-14	6.28	5.97	48.2	46.4
15-19	6.51	6.62	44.7	42.7
20-24	7.79	9.32	41.1	39.1
25-29	9.06	10.01	37.6	35.8
30-34	10.18	10.79	34.2	32.5
35-39	11.38	12.25	30.9	29.2
40-44	12.46	14.34	27.5	25.9
45-49	13.55	16.93	24.2	22.6
50-54	16.89	21.24	20.7	19.4
55-59	22.56	27.19	17.3	16.3
60-64	33.43	38.16	14.0	13.3
65-69	50.54	55.34	11.1	10.5
70-74	77.95	84.56	8.6	8.1
75-79	116.25	127.54	6.6	6.1
80-84	173.21	191.66	4.9	4.5
85-89	251.03	284.90	3.6	3.3
90-94	352.88	399.19	2.7	2.4
95-99	465.97	519.06	2.1	1.9
100+	591.37	642.39	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 1954

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