Mortality in Middle Africa, 2022

Middle Africa
2022
Life expectancy: 58.8
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 58.8 years in 2022: 61.7 for women and 56.0 for men, a gap of 5.6 years. 1,943,603 people died; 20.4% of them were 65 or older and 33.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
58.8
Women
61.7
Men
56.0
Life expectancy at 65
12.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
55.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
84.8
Deaths
1,943,603
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
356
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
252
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2022'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
051.9963.3061.756.0
1-47.648.3063.958.6
5-93.533.8761.856.6
10-142.012.4457.952.6
15-192.464.3153.448.2
20-243.116.9049.144.2
25-293.636.8144.840.7
30-344.156.6240.637.0
35-394.967.2936.433.2
40-446.308.8832.229.3
45-497.8111.2228.225.5
50-5410.7715.3924.221.8
55-5914.7120.5120.418.4
60-6422.2329.7316.815.1
65-6934.5343.9713.412.1
70-7454.2366.2510.59.5
75-7983.6699.138.07.2
80-84133.87151.955.85.3
85-89208.87232.044.23.9
90-94307.21341.573.12.8
95-99439.84460.442.22.1
100+578.77566.191.71.8