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

Middle Africa

2012

Life expectancy: 57.2

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 57.2 years in 2012: 58.8 for women and 55.5 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 1,596,286 people died; 18.3% of them were 65 or older and 40.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2012

Life expectancy at birth

57.2

Women

58.8

Men

55.5

Life expectancy at 65

12.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

70.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

107.4

Deaths

1,596,286

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.0

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

335

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

279

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2012's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2012

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	67.38	81.35	58.8	55.5
1-4	9.70	10.63	61.9	59.1
5-9	4.15	4.24	60.2	57.6
10-14	2.43	2.53	56.5	53.7
15-19	2.98	3.45	52.1	49.4
20-24	3.73	4.98	47.9	45.2
25-29	4.47	5.41	43.7	41.3
30-34	5.23	6.04	39.6	37.4
35-39	6.19	7.13	35.6	33.4
40-44	7.39	8.81	31.7	29.5
45-49	8.66	11.04	27.8	25.8
50-54	11.39	14.89	23.9	22.1
55-59	15.34	19.76	20.1	18.6
60-64	22.87	28.66	16.5	15.2
65-69	35.28	42.35	13.2	12.2
70-74	56.11	65.19	10.3	9.5
75-79	87.82	100.24	7.8	7.2
80-84	137.37	153.40	5.8	5.3
85-89	206.49	229.67	4.3	3.9
90-94	298.27	333.03	3.1	2.9
95-99	417.85	437.15	2.3	2.2
100+	542.65	542.06	1.8	1.8

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 2012

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