Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2010

Sierra Leone
2010
Life expectancy: 51.9
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.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 51.9 years in 2010: 52.9 for women and 50.9 for men, a gap of 2.0 years. 88,061 people died; 18.8% of them were 65 or older and 44.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
51.9
Women
52.9
Men
50.9
Life expectancy at 65
11.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
109.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
161.0
Deaths
88,061
Deaths per 1,000 people
14.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
359
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
330
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2010'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
0109.98127.1252.950.9
1-414.6815.4657.956.6
5-94.274.0257.356.1
10-142.842.5453.552.2
15-194.063.8949.247.9
20-245.045.5545.143.7
25-295.675.5041.239.9
30-346.475.9537.336.0
35-397.497.1933.532.0
40-448.759.1529.728.0
45-4910.3012.0425.924.2
50-5413.5816.5722.120.6
55-5918.5123.0018.517.1
60-6428.1934.3115.013.9
65-6942.8050.8511.911.0
70-7469.1778.589.28.5
75-79106.98119.086.96.4
80-84161.06178.655.24.8
85-89232.79259.033.93.6
90-94319.42352.993.02.7
95-99432.46474.832.32.1
100+556.70601.111.81.7