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

Mozambique

1953

Life expectancy: 38.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Mozambique was 38.5 years in 1953: 39.9 for women and 37.0 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 157,159 people died; 10.5% of them were 65 or older and 56.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

38.5

Women

39.9

Men

37.0

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

180.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

315.4

Deaths

157,159

Deaths per 1,000 people

25.7

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

459

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

399

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	191.77	221.20	39.9	37.0
1-4	44.70	47.44	47.0	44.7
5-9	10.34	10.69	51.7	49.5
10-14	6.02	5.87	49.3	47.1
15-19	6.17	6.43	45.8	43.4
20-24	7.56	8.91	42.1	39.8
25-29	8.59	9.60	38.6	36.5
30-34	9.28	10.42	35.2	33.1
35-39	10.14	11.85	31.8	29.8
40-44	11.15	13.57	28.3	26.4
45-49	12.30	15.98	24.8	23.1
50-54	15.75	20.27	21.2	19.8
55-59	20.84	25.78	17.7	16.7
60-64	31.76	36.79	14.4	13.6
65-69	48.31	53.45	11.4	10.9
70-74	75.06	80.41	8.9	8.4
75-79	111.62	120.59	6.8	6.4
80-84	162.18	178.14	5.2	4.8
85-89	233.45	258.91	3.9	3.6
90-94	319.59	354.11	3.0	2.7
95-99	423.94	469.28	2.3	2.1
100+	540.54	591.16	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Mozambique by year

Mortality in Mozambique, 1953

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