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

Senegal

1963

Life expectancy: 39.7

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

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-5 -1 1963 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Senegal was 39.7 years in 1963: 40.2 for women and 39.2 for men, a gap of 1.0 years. 90,151 people died; 10.8% of them were 65 or older and 58.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

39.7

Women

40.2

Men

39.2

Life expectancy at 65

9.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

125.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

300.1

Deaths

90,151

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.8

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

445

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

402

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1963's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1963

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	128.17	145.28	40.2	39.2
1-4	58.00	57.26	44.6	44.2
5-9	8.59	7.65	51.5	50.8
10-14	4.64	3.88	48.6	47.7
15-19	6.58	5.87	44.7	43.6
20-24	8.27	8.96	41.1	39.8
25-29	9.03	8.91	37.8	36.5
30-34	9.37	9.14	34.4	33.0
35-39	10.10	10.23	30.9	29.5
40-44	10.64	12.43	27.4	25.9
45-49	11.65	15.04	23.8	22.4
50-54	15.50	19.81	20.0	18.9
55-59	21.49	26.98	16.4	15.6
60-64	35.32	40.31	13.0	12.5
65-69	55.59	60.03	10.0	9.8
70-74	91.65	95.30	7.5	7.3
75-79	147.34	151.20	5.4	5.3
80-84	234.25	236.05	3.8	3.8
85-89	360.18	371.83	2.7	2.6
90-94	499.60	520.56	2.0	1.9
95-99	645.50	673.67	1.5	1.5
100+	784.13	796.94	1.3	1.3

Mortality in Senegal by year

Mortality in Senegal, 1963

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