Mortality in Rwanda, 2017

Rwanda
2017
Life expectancy: 66.1
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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-5 -1   2017  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 66.1 years in 2017: 68.2 for women and 63.8 for men, a gap of 4.4 years. 76,062 people died; 31.8% of them were 65 or older and 22.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
66.1
Women
68.2
Men
63.8
Life expectancy at 65
13.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
32.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
44.2
Deaths
76,062
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
275
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
193
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017'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
030.6737.0868.363.8
1-42.952.9369.365.2
5-90.890.9766.261.9
10-140.700.8261.457.2
15-191.111.5556.652.5
20-241.552.3951.947.8
25-292.002.9347.343.4
30-342.593.7242.839.0
35-393.454.9938.334.7
40-444.626.7933.930.5
45-496.279.4629.726.4
50-548.8513.4625.522.6
55-5912.4818.9221.619.0
60-6418.8827.8617.815.6
65-6929.3841.0514.312.6
70-7447.6962.1311.19.9
75-7976.6894.058.47.6
80-84121.90142.006.35.7
85-89188.67208.774.64.3
90-94276.89294.103.43.2
95-99389.15397.492.52.5
100+522.74516.001.91.9