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

Mozambique

1973

Life expectancy: 42.7

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-5 -1 1973 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Mozambique was 42.7 years in 1973: 44.2 for women and 41.3 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 196,812 people died; 10.9% 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, 1973

Life expectancy at birth

42.7

Women

44.2

Men

41.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

162.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

270.3

Deaths

196,812

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.0

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

419

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

361

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1973's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1973

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	170.80	196.24	44.2	41.3
1-4	34.21	35.86	51.1	48.8
5-9	8.19	8.16	54.2	52.0
10-14	4.89	4.55	51.4	49.0
15-19	5.20	5.69	47.6	45.1
20-24	6.41	8.55	43.8	41.3
25-29	7.28	8.91	40.1	38.0
30-34	7.93	9.19	36.5	34.7
35-39	8.79	10.13	32.9	31.2
40-44	9.85	11.53	29.3	27.7
45-49	11.03	13.74	25.6	24.1
50-54	14.18	17.64	21.9	20.7
55-59	18.84	22.98	18.3	17.4
60-64	28.68	33.02	14.9	14.2
65-69	44.29	48.90	11.8	11.3
70-74	70.75	75.59	9.1	8.7
75-79	107.94	115.86	6.9	6.5
80-84	159.53	174.72	5.2	4.9
85-89	230.58	256.16	3.9	3.6
90-94	316.75	352.48	3.0	2.7
95-99	421.64	470.02	2.3	2.1
100+	538.91	596.77	1.9	1.7

Mortality in Mozambique by year

Mortality in Mozambique, 1973

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