Mortality in Rwanda, 2021

Rwanda
2021
Life expectancy: 66.8
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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Life expectancy at birth in Rwanda was 66.8 years in 2021: 68.9 for women and 64.6 for men, a gap of 4.3 years. 82,603 people died; 35.4% of them were 65 or older and 18.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
66.8
Women
68.9
Men
64.6
Life expectancy at 65
13.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
29.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
39.3
Deaths
82,603
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
270
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
190
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2021'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
027.0732.8268.964.6
1-42.522.7069.865.7
5-90.770.9066.562.4
10-140.610.7761.757.7
15-190.971.4856.952.9
20-241.332.2752.248.3
25-291.612.6447.543.8
30-342.183.3942.939.3
35-393.104.7138.335.0
40-444.456.6733.930.7
45-496.359.5229.626.7
50-549.1713.5225.422.9
55-5912.9018.6821.519.3
60-6419.2827.0317.815.9
65-6929.4339.5214.312.9
70-7446.6859.4811.210.1
75-7974.2889.028.57.8
80-84120.33134.836.25.8
85-89202.74215.324.34.1
90-94299.44306.243.13.1
95-99420.28415.852.32.4
100+549.48531.801.81.9