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

Sierra Leone

2014

Life expectancy: 54.3

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

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-5 -1 2014 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone was 54.3 years in 2014: 55.1 for women and 53.4 for men, a gap of 1.7 years. 84,803 people died; 20.7% of them were 65 or older and 40.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2014

Life expectancy at birth

54.3

Women

55.1

Men

53.4

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

96.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

138.8

Deaths

84,803

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.3

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

334

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

313

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2014's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2014

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	95.35	111.15	55.1	53.4
1-4	11.79	12.47	59.5	58.5
5-9	3.69	3.42	58.3	57.4
10-14	2.54	2.24	54.4	53.4
15-19	3.62	3.49	50.0	48.9
20-24	4.49	4.83	45.9	44.8
25-29	5.08	4.77	41.9	40.8
30-34	5.85	5.18	37.9	36.7
35-39	6.88	6.32	33.9	32.6
40-44	8.18	8.16	30.0	28.6
45-49	9.86	10.99	26.2	24.6
50-54	13.06	15.45	22.4	20.9
55-59	17.89	21.98	18.7	17.4
60-64	27.17	33.18	15.2	14.1
65-69	41.59	49.68	12.1	11.2
70-74	67.61	76.78	9.3	8.6
75-79	105.41	116.59	7.0	6.5
80-84	159.90	175.55	5.2	4.8
85-89	233.17	257.02	3.9	3.6
90-94	321.98	352.39	3.0	2.7
95-99	437.50	474.27	2.2	2.1
100+	564.78	601.58	1.8	1.7

Mortality in Sierra Leone by year

Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2014

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