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

Sierra Leone

1952

Life expectancy: 29.7

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

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-5 -1 1952 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 29.7 years in 1952: 31.2 for women and 28.3 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 68,809 people died; 7.2% of them were 65 or older and 61.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1952

Life expectancy at birth

29.7

Women

31.2

Men

28.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

218.8

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

446.1

Deaths

68,809

Deaths per 1,000 people

33.6

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

506

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

448

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1952's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1952

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	238.86	277.82	31.2	28.3
1-4	85.61	93.38	38.2	35.8
5-9	13.20	13.90	48.6	46.5
10-14	7.03	6.95	46.8	44.7
15-19	8.02	7.89	43.3	41.2
20-24	9.93	12.20	40.0	37.8
25-29	10.87	12.48	36.9	35.0
30-34	11.92	13.03	33.8	32.1
35-39	12.52	14.32	30.8	29.1
40-44	13.28	16.12	27.6	26.0
45-49	13.43	17.83	24.3	23.0
50-54	16.93	21.29	20.8	19.9
55-59	21.93	25.54	17.4	16.9
60-64	34.09	35.71	14.2	13.8
65-69	49.18	50.27	11.3	11.1
70-74	76.99	78.38	8.8	8.5
75-79	112.44	118.02	6.8	6.4
80-84	165.92	181.28	5.1	4.8
85-89	234.26	258.98	3.9	3.6
90-94	318.31	350.56	3.0	2.7
95-99	432.50	479.96	2.3	2.1
100+	554.88	611.36	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 1952

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