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

Rwanda

1989

Life expectancy: 49.5

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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 49.5 years in 1989: 51.6 for women and 47.5 for men, a gap of 4.0 years. 107,886 people died; 12.7% of them were 65 or older and 46.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1989

Life expectancy at birth

49.5

Women

51.6

Men

47.5

Life expectancy at 65

11.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

96.2

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

155.6

Deaths

107,886

Deaths per 1,000 people

15.0

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

475

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

385

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1989's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1989

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	94.80	111.33	51.6	47.6
1-4	16.56	17.72	55.6	52.0
5-9	4.17	4.63	55.3	51.7
10-14	2.88	3.10	51.4	47.8
15-19	3.82	4.31	47.1	43.5
20-24	5.49	6.73	42.9	39.4
25-29	7.15	8.51	39.1	35.7
30-34	8.55	10.49	35.4	32.1
35-39	10.05	13.02	31.8	28.7
40-44	11.42	15.52	28.3	25.5
45-49	13.07	18.55	24.9	22.3
50-54	16.42	23.03	21.4	19.3
55-59	21.15	28.58	18.0	16.3
60-64	30.49	39.31	14.7	13.4
65-69	45.65	55.28	11.7	10.8
70-74	71.26	81.50	9.1	8.5
75-79	108.45	119.71	6.9	6.5
80-84	161.23	174.00	5.2	4.9
85-89	235.08	245.72	3.9	3.7
90-94	328.20	330.69	2.9	2.9
95-99	441.53	433.20	2.2	2.3
100+	570.06	546.03	1.8	1.8

Mortality in Rwanda by year

Mortality in Rwanda, 1989

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