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

Middle Africa

2014

Life expectancy: 57.6

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Middle Africa was 57.6 years in 2014: 59.6 for women and 55.6 for men, a gap of 3.9 years. 1,653,476 people died; 18.7% of them were 65 or older and 39.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2014

Life expectancy at birth

57.6

Women

59.6

Men

55.6

Life expectancy at 65

12.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

66.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

101.5

Deaths

1,653,476

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.7

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

341

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

272

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2014's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2014

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	63.59	76.69	59.6	55.7
1-4	9.09	9.96	62.4	59.0
5-9	4.02	4.16	60.6	57.3
10-14	2.34	2.51	56.8	53.5
15-19	2.88	3.65	52.5	49.1
20-24	3.59	5.40	48.2	45.0
25-29	4.27	5.73	44.0	41.1
30-34	4.97	6.22	39.9	37.2
35-39	5.89	7.23	35.8	33.3
40-44	7.13	8.90	31.8	29.5
45-49	8.44	11.14	27.9	25.7
50-54	11.18	15.02	24.0	22.0
55-59	15.11	20.00	20.2	18.5
60-64	22.64	28.98	16.6	15.2
65-69	34.83	42.46	13.3	12.2
70-74	55.42	65.06	10.3	9.5
75-79	86.81	99.68	7.9	7.2
80-84	136.47	152.88	5.8	5.3
85-89	206.03	229.39	4.3	3.9
90-94	298.53	333.23	3.1	2.9
95-99	418.22	442.10	2.3	2.2
100+	544.07	555.71	1.8	1.8

Mortality in Middle Africa by year

Mortality in Middle Africa, 2014

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