Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2013

Sierra Leone
2013
Life expectancy: 54.1
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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-5 -1   2013  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 54.1 years in 2013: 55.0 for women and 53.1 for men, a gap of 1.8 years. 84,466 people died; 20.5% of them were 65 or older and 41.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
54.1
Women
55.0
Men
53.1
Life expectancy at 65
11.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
98.9
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
142.0
Deaths
84,466
Deaths per 1,000 people
12.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
336
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
312
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2013'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
098.16114.1955.053.1
1-412.0012.7459.558.4
5-93.673.4258.357.3
10-142.502.2254.453.3
15-193.643.4950.048.8
20-244.524.9045.944.7
25-295.114.8241.940.7
30-345.875.2337.936.6
35-396.886.3834.032.5
40-448.168.2530.128.5
45-499.8011.0926.224.6
50-5413.0115.5722.420.9
55-5917.8522.0418.717.3
60-6427.1933.2315.214.1
65-6941.5649.7112.111.2
70-7467.4877.099.38.6
75-79105.19117.387.06.5
80-84159.11176.415.24.8
85-89231.15257.283.93.6
90-94318.30351.913.02.7
95-99431.59473.312.32.1
100+556.70599.481.81.7