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

Senegal

1953

Life expectancy: 37.8

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

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-5 -1 1953 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Senegal was 37.8 years in 1953: 38.3 for women and 37.2 for men, a gap of 1.1 years. 75,208 people died; 11.9% of them were 65 or older and 58.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1953

Life expectancy at birth

37.8

Women

38.3

Men

37.2

Life expectancy at 65

9.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

130.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

324.2

Deaths

75,208

Deaths per 1,000 people

27.3

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

463

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

418

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1953's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1953

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	133.68	151.90	38.3	37.2
1-4	65.72	65.39	42.6	42.1
5-9	9.18	8.24	50.5	49.8
10-14	4.95	4.14	47.8	46.8
15-19	7.00	6.27	44.0	42.7
20-24	8.79	9.57	40.4	39.0
25-29	9.57	9.53	37.1	35.8
30-34	9.94	9.73	33.8	32.4
35-39	10.69	10.87	30.4	28.9
40-44	11.21	13.16	27.0	25.4
45-49	12.22	15.86	23.4	21.9
50-54	16.23	20.79	19.7	18.5
55-59	22.47	28.23	16.1	15.3
60-64	36.98	42.15	12.7	12.2
65-69	58.08	62.70	9.8	9.5
70-74	95.49	99.34	7.3	7.1
75-79	153.00	157.09	5.3	5.2
80-84	242.21	244.39	3.7	3.7
85-89	370.30	382.84	2.6	2.5
90-94	510.55	533.51	1.9	1.9
95-99	654.92	685.15	1.5	1.5
100+	790.89	815.99	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Senegal by year

Mortality in Senegal, 1953

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