Mortality in Sierra Leone, 1970

Sierra Leone
1970
Life expectancy: 38.6
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 Sierra Leone was 38.6 years in 1970: 39.9 for women and 37.3 for men, a gap of 2.6 years. 71,963 people died; 12.4% of them were 65 or older and 58.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
38.6
Women
39.9
Men
37.3
Life expectancy at 65
11.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
185.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
334.2
Deaths
71,963
Deaths per 1,000 people
26.5
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
422
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
381
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1970'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
0197.59228.5839.937.3
1-450.6053.7747.345.4
5-98.619.0753.251.6
10-144.774.8550.548.9
15-195.665.8846.645.0
20-247.008.5942.941.3
25-297.798.5439.338.0
30-348.778.9635.834.6
35-399.6310.1732.331.0
40-4410.7112.0028.727.5
45-4911.5214.2325.224.0
50-5414.9018.0521.520.6
55-5919.7423.0618.017.3
60-6430.9533.3114.614.2
65-6945.9248.2611.611.3
70-7473.5275.878.98.7
75-79110.25115.586.86.5
80-84164.30177.495.14.8
85-89234.49257.053.93.6
90-94319.77349.913.02.7
95-99434.83476.582.32.1
100+557.35605.551.81.7