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

Sierra Leone

2011

Life expectancy: 52.6

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 52.6 years in 2011: 53.5 for women and 51.7 for men, a gap of 1.8 years. 87,166 people died; 19.3% of them were 65 or older and 43.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2011

Life expectancy at birth

52.6

Women

53.5

Men

51.7

Life expectancy at 65

11.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

105.9

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

154.4

Deaths

87,166

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.6

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

352

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

326

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2011's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2011

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	105.93	122.67	53.5	51.7
1-4	13.72	14.49	58.3	57.2
5-9	4.09	3.81	57.5	56.5
10-14	2.75	2.43	53.7	52.6
15-19	3.96	3.76	49.4	48.2
20-24	4.92	5.34	45.3	44.0
25-29	5.54	5.28	41.4	40.2
30-34	6.33	5.72	37.5	36.2
35-39	7.35	6.93	33.6	32.1
40-44	8.61	8.87	29.8	28.2
45-49	10.20	11.75	26.0	24.3
50-54	13.46	16.27	22.2	20.7
55-59	18.38	22.73	18.5	17.2
60-64	27.97	34.01	15.1	13.9
65-69	42.52	50.55	12.0	11.1
70-74	68.76	78.20	9.2	8.5
75-79	106.55	118.65	7.0	6.5
80-84	160.57	178.08	5.2	4.8
85-89	232.37	258.64	3.9	3.6
90-94	319.12	352.84	3.0	2.7
95-99	432.13	474.56	2.3	2.1
100+	556.61	600.85	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2011

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