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

Senegal

1978

Life expectancy: 46.6

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

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-5 -1 1978 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Senegal was 46.6 years in 1978: 47.4 for women and 45.8 for men, a gap of 1.7 years. 105,094 people died; 11.9% of them were 65 or older and 56.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

46.6

Women

47.4

Men

45.8

Life expectancy at 65

10.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

106.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

224.7

Deaths

105,094

Deaths per 1,000 people

18.9

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

386

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

338

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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	106.49	121.60	47.5	45.8
1-4	36.17	36.50	51.7	50.5
5-9	6.19	5.52	55.3	54.1
10-14	3.46	2.99	52.0	50.5
15-19	5.02	4.53	47.9	46.3
20-24	6.34	6.95	44.0	42.3
25-29	6.98	6.90	40.3	38.7
30-34	7.27	7.36	36.7	34.9
35-39	7.92	8.28	32.9	31.1
40-44	8.54	10.25	29.2	27.4
45-49	9.56	12.66	25.3	23.7
50-54	12.83	16.99	21.5	20.0
55-59	17.92	23.51	17.7	16.6
60-64	29.31	35.25	14.1	13.3
65-69	46.77	52.88	10.9	10.4
70-74	78.36	84.88	8.2	7.8
75-79	128.36	136.75	5.9	5.7
80-84	207.89	216.94	4.2	4.0
85-89	328.23	348.68	2.9	2.7
90-94	464.81	498.45	2.1	2.0
95-99	615.82	657.55	1.6	1.5
100+	758.09	803.73	1.3	1.2

Mortality in Senegal by year

Mortality in Senegal, 1978

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