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

Senegal

1974

Life expectancy: 43.1

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-5 -1 1974 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Senegal was 43.1 years in 1974: 43.7 for women and 42.5 for men, a gap of 1.2 years. 108,723 people died; 11.0% of them were 65 or older and 57.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1974

Life expectancy at birth

43.1

Women

43.7

Men

42.5

Life expectancy at 65

10.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

116.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

262.4

Deaths

108,723

Deaths per 1,000 people

21.6

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

415

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

369

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1974's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1974

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	118.22	133.84	43.7	42.5
1-4	46.75	46.08	48.1	47.4
5-9	7.34	6.53	53.4	52.5
10-14	4.04	3.42	50.3	49.1
15-19	5.81	5.18	46.3	44.9
20-24	7.30	7.93	42.6	41.0
25-29	8.00	7.87	39.1	37.6
30-34	8.29	8.20	35.6	34.0
35-39	8.98	9.22	32.0	30.3
40-44	9.54	11.29	28.3	26.6
45-49	10.55	13.80	24.6	23.0
50-54	14.06	18.33	20.8	19.5
55-59	19.57	25.16	17.1	16.1
60-64	32.06	37.66	13.6	12.9
65-69	50.80	56.28	10.5	10.1
70-74	84.41	89.81	7.8	7.6
75-79	136.81	143.58	5.7	5.5
80-84	219.73	226.00	4.0	3.9
85-89	341.89	359.89	2.8	2.7
90-94	479.88	510.01	2.1	1.9
95-99	628.82	666.55	1.6	1.5
100+	770.48	810.83	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Senegal by year

Mortality in Senegal, 1974

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