Mortality in Middle Africa, 2000

Middle Africa
2000
Life expectancy: 50.8
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2000  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 50.8 years in 2000: 52.6 for women and 49.0 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 1,503,704 people died; 14.5% of them were 65 or older and 47.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
50.8
Women
52.6
Men
49.0
Life expectancy at 65
12.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
101.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
165.2
Deaths
1,503,704
Deaths per 1,000 people
15.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
395
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
331
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2000's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0100.01118.6752.649.0
1-417.8119.0957.054.0
5-95.696.1157.154.1
10-143.323.4653.750.7
15-193.904.5149.546.6
20-244.946.6645.542.6
25-295.967.2941.538.9
30-346.928.0337.735.3
35-398.019.3133.931.6
40-449.2211.1730.228.0
45-4910.4413.5326.524.5
50-5413.2417.4322.821.0
55-5917.5822.5519.217.7
60-6426.1032.1615.714.5
65-6939.9647.0312.611.6
70-7462.3271.539.89.0
75-7994.88108.087.56.9
80-84145.00163.345.65.1
85-89214.71241.734.13.8
90-94312.03345.793.02.8
95-99423.15460.242.32.1
100+554.82605.441.81.7