Mortality in Sierra Leone, 1951

Sierra Leone
1951
Life expectancy: 29.3
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.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1951  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 29.3 years in 1951: 30.8 for women and 27.8 for men, a gap of 3.0 years. 68,920 people died; 6.9% of them were 65 or older and 62.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
29.3
Women
30.8
Men
27.8
Life expectancy at 65
11.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
220.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
452.5
Deaths
68,920
Deaths per 1,000 people
34.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
509
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
451
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1951'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0240.88280.2630.827.8
1-487.8696.1637.735.2
5-913.4614.1948.446.3
10-147.157.0746.644.5
15-198.148.0043.241.1
20-2410.0812.3839.937.6
25-2911.0212.6736.834.9
30-3412.0713.2233.732.0
35-3912.6514.5130.729.0
40-4413.4016.3027.526.0
45-4913.5117.9824.323.0
50-5417.0121.4120.819.9
55-5922.0225.6317.416.9
60-6434.2235.7914.113.8
65-6949.2950.3411.311.1
70-7477.1078.498.88.5
75-79112.46118.176.86.4
80-84165.89181.595.14.8
85-89234.12259.373.93.6
90-94318.10351.043.02.7
95-99432.25480.912.32.1
100+554.57612.561.81.6