Mortality in Senegal, 2008

Senegal
2008
Life expectancy: 63.2
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.
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Life expectancy at birth in Senegal was 63.2 years in 2008: 64.9 for women and 61.5 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 98,291 people died; 30.9% of them were 65 or older and 33.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
63.2
Women
64.9
Men
61.5
Life expectancy at 65
12.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
47.0
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
75.2
Deaths
98,291
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
251
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
189
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2008'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
044.2353.3764.961.5
1-47.217.8966.863.8
5-91.981.9964.761.8
10-141.221.3760.357.3
15-191.902.0555.752.7
20-242.503.1251.248.2
25-292.883.1346.844.0
30-343.083.7142.539.6
35-393.584.3438.135.3
40-444.325.7933.731.0
45-495.297.7829.426.9
50-547.4911.2825.122.8
55-5910.7116.4121.019.0
60-6417.5924.9517.015.4
65-6929.4338.3313.312.1
70-7452.4163.6510.09.1
75-7992.08108.087.26.6
80-84159.60178.705.14.7
85-89255.38286.613.53.2
90-94405.01453.132.42.2
95-99564.13623.301.81.6
100+721.71779.061.41.3