Mortality in Middle Africa, 2050

Middle Africa
2050
Life expectancy: 66.3
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 is projected at 66.3 years in 2050: 68.9 for women and 63.8 for men, a gap of 5.1 years. 2,771,602 people are projected to die; 34.2% of them would be 65 or older and 20.2% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
66.3
Women
68.9
Men
63.8
Life expectancy at 65
14.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
34.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
49.7
Deaths
2,771,602
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
244
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
171
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2050'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
028.8841.0068.963.8
1-43.534.6669.965.4
5-91.672.2766.862.6
10-141.031.3962.458.3
15-191.342.0857.753.7
20-241.733.0553.149.3
25-292.093.3048.545.0
30-342.463.7044.040.7
35-393.034.4239.536.4
40-444.005.7035.132.1
45-495.107.5530.728.0
50-547.3610.9126.424.0
55-5910.3915.0622.320.2
60-6416.3722.8518.416.6
65-6926.6235.1114.713.2
70-7444.3655.4911.510.3
75-7972.5987.478.77.8
80-84118.11136.816.45.8
85-89183.01210.024.74.2
90-94271.69313.813.43.0
95-99391.37429.802.52.3
100+517.73553.281.91.8