Middle Africa

2001

Life expectancy: 51.1

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 51.1 years in 2001: 53.0 for women and 49.3 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 1,523,831 people died; 14.7% of them were 65 or older and 46.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2001

Life expectancy at birth

51.1

Women

53.0

Men

49.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

99.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

160.7

Deaths

1,523,831

Deaths per 1,000 people

14.9

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

395

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

329

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2001's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2001

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	97.64	115.92	53.0	49.3
1-4	17.06	18.38	57.3	54.2
5-9	5.60	5.96	57.2	54.2
10-14	3.27	3.38	53.8	50.8
15-19	3.86	4.50	49.6	46.6
20-24	4.89	6.72	45.5	42.6
25-29	5.91	7.35	41.6	39.0
30-34	6.86	8.06	37.8	35.3
35-39	7.96	9.30	34.0	31.7
40-44	9.18	11.13	30.3	28.1
45-49	10.40	13.47	26.6	24.5
50-54	13.21	17.36	22.9	21.1
55-59	17.50	22.43	19.2	17.7
60-64	25.94	31.97	15.8	14.6
65-69	39.73	46.77	12.6	11.6
70-74	62.03	71.21	9.8	9.0
75-79	94.63	107.72	7.5	6.9
80-84	144.68	162.88	5.6	5.1
85-89	214.31	241.17	4.1	3.8
90-94	311.59	345.05	3.0	2.8
95-99	422.59	455.79	2.3	2.2
100+	553.43	594.42	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 2001

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