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

Rwanda

1996

Life expectancy: 42.5

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-5 -1 1996 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 42.5 years in 1996: 44.2 for women and 40.6 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 109,236 people died; 9.2% of them were 65 or older and 47.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1996

Life expectancy at birth

42.5

Women

44.2

Men

40.6

Life expectancy at 65

10.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

120.1

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

210.9

Deaths

109,236

Deaths per 1,000 people

16.3

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

570

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

480

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1996's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1996

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	121.67	140.56	44.2	40.6
1-4	26.97	28.26	48.8	45.5
5-9	6.45	7.08	50.1	46.7
10-14	4.27	4.55	46.7	43.3
15-19	5.41	6.13	42.6	39.3
20-24	7.87	9.84	38.7	35.4
25-29	10.38	12.46	35.2	32.1
30-34	12.27	15.08	31.9	29.0
35-39	14.12	18.16	28.8	26.0
40-44	15.58	20.78	25.7	23.3
45-49	17.23	23.74	22.6	20.5
50-54	21.16	28.28	19.4	17.8
55-59	26.74	33.85	16.3	15.2
60-64	38.07	45.46	13.3	12.5
65-69	56.14	62.88	10.5	10.0
70-74	86.20	91.64	8.1	7.9
75-79	128.14	133.05	6.2	6.0
80-84	185.21	191.01	4.7	4.6
85-89	262.54	266.31	3.5	3.5
90-94	356.99	353.55	2.7	2.7
95-99	469.66	457.86	2.1	2.2
100+	595.03	571.14	1.7	1.8

Mortality in Rwanda by year

Mortality in Rwanda, 1996

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