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

Rwanda

1986

Life expectancy: 51.7

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

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-5 -1 1986 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 51.7 years in 1986: 53.3 for women and 50.2 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 94,741 people died; 12.2% of them were 65 or older and 52.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1986

Life expectancy at birth

51.7

Women

53.3

Men

50.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

97.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

157.8

Deaths

94,741

Deaths per 1,000 people

14.5

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

391

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

336

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1986's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1986

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	95.82	112.60	53.3	50.2
1-4	16.90	18.19	57.5	55.0
5-9	4.23	4.56	57.4	55.0
10-14	2.82	2.89	53.5	51.3
15-19	3.54	3.77	49.3	47.0
20-24	4.82	5.55	45.1	42.8
25-29	6.01	6.50	41.1	38.9
30-34	7.01	7.65	37.3	35.2
35-39	8.17	9.33	33.6	31.4
40-44	9.37	11.28	29.9	27.8
45-49	10.81	13.88	26.2	24.3
50-54	13.86	17.97	22.5	20.8
55-59	18.22	23.22	18.9	17.5
60-64	26.94	33.06	15.5	14.4
65-69	41.01	48.00	12.3	11.5
70-74	64.98	72.76	9.6	9.0
75-79	99.92	109.72	7.3	6.9
80-84	149.74	162.85	5.5	5.2
85-89	219.72	234.83	4.1	3.9
90-94	307.75	321.04	3.1	3.0
95-99	415.73	425.67	2.3	2.3
100+	539.37	540.57	1.9	1.9

Mortality in Rwanda by year

Mortality in Rwanda, 1986

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