Mortality in Middle Africa, 2009

Middle Africa
2009
Life expectancy: 51.8
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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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 51.8 years in 2009: 54.7 for women and 49.1 for men, a gap of 5.6 years. 1,848,781 people died; 15.7% of them were 65 or older and 40.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
51.8
Women
54.7
Men
49.1
Life expectancy at 65
12.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
83.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
134.3
Deaths
1,848,781
Deaths per 1,000 people
14.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
447
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
329
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2009'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
080.4796.1254.749.1
1-413.9314.9458.252.9
5-95.675.6257.452.0
10-143.163.4154.048.4
15-193.705.8449.844.2
20-244.649.5245.740.5
25-295.559.8541.737.3
30-346.389.6937.834.1
35-397.5410.7933.930.6
40-449.0812.4630.127.2
45-4910.7215.0826.423.8
50-5413.7819.6422.720.5
55-5918.2325.4819.217.3
60-6426.1234.1015.814.3
65-6939.6848.6012.611.5
70-7461.7572.519.89.0
75-7993.97107.627.56.9
80-84145.97164.315.55.1
85-89220.18246.524.03.7
90-94325.91350.742.92.8
95-99438.23443.192.22.2
100+552.79549.841.81.8