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

Rwanda

2007

Life expectancy: 59.5

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

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-5 -1 2007 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 59.5 years in 2007: 61.3 for women and 57.5 for men, a gap of 3.7 years. 85,066 people died; 20.5% of them were 65 or older and 36.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2007

Life expectancy at birth

59.5

Women

61.3

Men

57.5

Life expectancy at 65

12.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

59.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

85.7

Deaths

85,066

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.9

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

345

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

275

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2007's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2007

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	56.27	67.17	61.3	57.5
1-4	6.95	7.49	63.8	60.4
5-9	1.91	2.15	61.5	58.2
10-14	1.42	1.58	57.1	53.8
15-19	2.07	2.48	52.5	49.2
20-24	2.95	3.78	48.0	44.8
25-29	3.84	4.64	43.7	40.6
30-34	4.77	5.76	39.5	36.5
35-39	5.96	7.43	35.3	32.5
40-44	7.32	9.51	31.3	28.6
45-49	9.07	12.36	27.4	24.9
50-54	12.02	16.58	23.6	21.3
55-59	16.13	22.10	19.9	18.0
60-64	23.76	31.72	16.3	14.8
65-69	36.24	45.98	13.1	11.9
70-74	57.67	69.13	10.1	9.3
75-79	90.31	103.61	7.7	7.1
80-84	139.04	154.04	5.7	5.4
85-89	209.29	222.62	4.2	4.1
90-94	300.39	306.99	3.1	3.1
95-99	413.81	409.07	2.4	2.4
100+	545.67	523.83	1.8	1.9

Mortality in Rwanda by year

Mortality in Rwanda, 2007

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