Niger Mortality 2017: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Life expectancy at birth in Niger was 59.5 years in 2017: 60.4 for women and 58.6 for men, a gap of 1.8 years. 213,439 people died; 16.3% of them were 65 or older and 55.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2017

Life expectancy at birth

59.5

Women

60.4

Men

58.6

Life expectancy at 65

12.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

68.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

124.8

Deaths

213,439

Deaths per 1,000 people

10.0

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

244

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

206

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2017

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	67.59	76.23	60.4	58.7
1-4	15.88	15.77	63.5	62.2
5-9	2.37	1.93	63.6	62.1
10-14	1.48	1.28	59.3	57.7
15-19	2.21	1.95	54.7	53.0
20-24	2.89	2.98	50.3	48.5
25-29	3.30	2.99	46.0	44.2
30-34	3.51	3.57	41.7	39.9
35-39	4.03	4.18	37.4	35.5
40-44	4.78	5.60	33.1	31.2
45-49	5.76	7.56	28.9	27.0
50-54	8.08	11.00	24.6	23.0
55-59	11.50	16.07	20.6	19.1
60-64	18.87	24.44	16.6	15.5
65-69	31.33	37.60	13.0	12.2
70-74	55.24	62.58	9.8	9.2
75-79	96.01	106.61	7.1	6.7
80-84	164.68	176.87	5.0	4.7
85-89	261.04	284.69	3.5	3.2
90-94	410.51	451.57	2.4	2.2
95-99	568.01	622.44	1.7	1.6
100+	723.12	779.24	1.4	1.3

Mortality in Niger by year

Mortality in Niger, 2017

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