Mortality in Mozambique, 1955

Mozambique
1955
Life expectancy: 39.3
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 Mozambique was 39.3 years in 1955: 40.7 for women and 37.7 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 156,949 people died; 10.6% of them were 65 or older and 56.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
39.3
Women
40.7
Men
37.7
Life expectancy at 65
11.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
176.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
305.8
Deaths
156,949
Deaths per 1,000 people
25.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
457
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
395
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1955'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
0187.48216.0940.737.8
1-442.3344.8147.845.4
5-99.8510.1752.149.8
10-145.775.6449.647.3
15-195.986.2646.043.6
20-247.378.7042.339.9
25-298.409.4338.836.5
30-349.1110.2835.433.2
35-399.9911.7531.929.8
40-4411.0013.5028.426.5
45-4912.1715.9324.923.1
50-5415.5920.2321.319.8
55-5920.6425.7517.816.7
60-6431.4036.7414.513.6
65-6947.8353.3211.510.9
70-7474.5480.198.98.4
75-79111.23120.316.86.4
80-84161.94177.875.24.8
85-89233.16258.593.93.6
90-94319.27353.753.02.7
95-99423.59468.892.32.1
100+540.19590.771.91.7