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

Sierra Leone

1954

Life expectancy: 30.5

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 30.5 years in 1954: 32.0 for women and 29.1 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 69,002 people died; 7.9% of them were 65 or older and 60.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

30.5

Women

32.0

Men

29.1

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

215.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

433.6

Deaths

69,002

Deaths per 1,000 people

32.9

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

502

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

446

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	234.72	272.80	32.0	29.1
1-4	81.19	88.28	39.0	36.6
5-9	12.84	13.44	48.8	46.8
10-14	6.88	6.76	46.9	44.9
15-19	7.92	7.76	43.4	41.4
20-24	9.80	11.97	40.1	37.9
25-29	10.73	12.23	37.0	35.1
30-34	11.78	12.79	33.9	32.2
35-39	12.40	14.09	30.8	29.1
40-44	13.19	15.93	27.6	26.1
45-49	13.39	17.71	24.3	23.0
50-54	16.89	21.22	20.8	19.9
55-59	21.91	25.57	17.4	16.9
60-64	34.02	35.81	14.2	13.8
65-69	49.14	50.46	11.3	11.0
70-74	76.98	78.61	8.8	8.5
75-79	112.59	118.34	6.8	6.4
80-84	166.15	181.52	5.1	4.8
85-89	234.63	259.30	3.9	3.6
90-94	318.77	350.89	3.0	2.7
95-99	432.89	480.06	2.3	2.1
100+	555.31	611.17	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 1954

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