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

Middle Africa

1963

Life expectancy: 40.8

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

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-5 -1 1963 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 40.8 years in 1963: 42.5 for women and 39.1 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 812,816 people died; 12.4% of them were 65 or older and 52.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

40.8

Women

42.5

Men

39.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

154.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

271.1

Deaths

812,816

Deaths per 1,000 people

23.6

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

477

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

402

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1963's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1963

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	159.69	186.03	42.5	39.1
1-4	36.74	38.60	48.6	45.8
5-9	10.00	10.08	51.9	49.0
10-14	5.52	5.33	49.5	46.4
15-19	5.88	6.56	45.8	42.6
20-24	7.06	9.79	42.1	39.0
25-29	8.27	10.56	38.5	35.8
30-34	9.35	11.19	35.0	32.6
35-39	10.53	12.44	31.6	29.3
40-44	11.65	14.35	28.2	26.0
45-49	12.78	16.82	24.7	22.8
50-54	15.95	20.96	21.2	19.6
55-59	21.30	26.82	17.7	16.4
60-64	31.50	37.47	14.4	13.4
65-69	47.86	54.19	11.4	10.7
70-74	74.37	82.41	8.9	8.3
75-79	111.52	123.84	6.8	6.2
80-84	166.77	185.80	5.1	4.6
85-89	240.48	272.13	3.8	3.4
90-94	340.72	386.65	2.8	2.5
95-99	455.43	517.59	2.2	1.9
100+	572.38	652.10	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 1963

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