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

Sierra Leone

1976

Life expectancy: 41.4

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-5 -1 1976 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 41.4 years in 1976: 43.1 for women and 39.7 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 73,433 people died; 13.7% of them were 65 or older and 57.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1976

Life expectancy at birth

41.4

Women

43.1

Men

39.7

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

174.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

304.7

Deaths

73,433

Deaths per 1,000 people

24.2

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

405

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

343

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1976's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1976

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	184.78	213.61	43.2	39.7
1-4	42.95	45.49	50.6	47.7
5-9	7.05	8.03	55.5	52.7
10-14	3.88	4.39	52.4	49.8
15-19	4.59	5.45	48.4	45.8
20-24	5.68	7.88	44.5	42.0
25-29	6.38	7.80	40.7	38.6
30-34	7.31	8.20	36.9	35.0
35-39	8.22	9.39	33.2	31.4
40-44	9.39	11.23	29.5	27.8
45-49	10.38	13.55	25.8	24.2
50-54	13.65	17.46	22.0	20.7
55-59	18.30	22.66	18.4	17.4
60-64	29.04	32.98	14.9	14.2
65-69	43.77	48.09	11.8	11.3
70-74	71.09	75.67	9.1	8.7
75-79	108.12	115.51	6.9	6.5
80-84	162.22	177.09	5.2	4.8
85-89	233.17	257.04	3.9	3.6
90-94	319.03	350.15	3.0	2.7
95-99	434.83	476.12	2.3	2.1
100+	557.32	604.52	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 1976

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