Mortality in Nigeria, 2024

Nigeria
2024
Life expectancy: 54.6
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 Nigeria is projected at 54.6 years in 2024: 54.9 for women and 54.3 for men, a gap of 0.6 years. 2,708,530 people are projected to die; 19.4% of them would be 65 or older and 28.3% 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
54.6
Women
54.9
Men
54.3
Life expectancy at 65
12.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
68.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
102.8
Deaths
2,708,530
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
355
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
341
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2024'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
066.1278.1554.954.3
1-49.099.6857.657.6
5-97.845.8655.755.8
10-144.013.3452.852.4
15-194.634.3048.848.3
20-245.476.1844.944.3
25-296.376.5041.140.6
30-347.336.9337.336.8
35-398.377.7733.633.0
40-449.489.3930.029.3
45-4910.4611.4226.325.5
50-5413.2715.1722.621.9
55-5917.9019.9118.918.4
60-6426.5328.8515.515.1
65-6940.9642.9212.312.0
70-7464.4266.619.59.3
75-7999.22103.197.27.0
80-84153.75160.115.35.1
85-89226.12244.453.93.7
90-94334.33372.512.92.6
95-99451.96511.122.21.9
100+603.90631.231.71.6