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

Sierra Leone

2003

Life expectancy: 46.8

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

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-5 -1 2003 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 46.8 years in 2003: 47.7 for women and 45.8 for men, a gap of 1.9 years. 94,776 people died; 15.8% of them were 65 or older and 48.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2003

Life expectancy at birth

46.8

Women

47.7

Men

45.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.2

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

133.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

207.7

Deaths

94,776

Deaths per 1,000 people

18.3

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

414

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

378

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2003's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2003

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	137.00	157.47	47.7	45.9
1-4	22.50	23.12	53.5	52.4
5-9	6.07	5.64	54.3	53.2
10-14	3.89	3.37	50.9	49.7
15-19	5.35	4.90	46.9	45.5
20-24	6.65	7.26	43.1	41.6
25-29	7.40	7.35	39.5	38.0
30-34	8.28	7.94	35.8	34.3
35-39	9.27	9.37	32.3	30.6
40-44	10.45	11.51	28.7	27.0
45-49	11.76	14.40	25.1	23.4
50-54	15.19	18.94	21.4	20.0
55-59	20.37	25.11	17.9	16.7
60-64	30.88	36.55	14.6	13.6
65-69	46.02	52.97	11.6	10.8
70-74	73.32	81.12	8.9	8.4
75-79	111.20	121.50	6.8	6.4
80-84	165.67	181.59	5.1	4.7
85-89	236.73	259.76	3.9	3.6
90-94	322.62	351.38	2.9	2.7
95-99	435.22	472.86	2.3	2.1
100+	558.78	598.95	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2003

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