Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2023

Sierra Leone
2023
Life expectancy: 61.8
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 61.8 years in 2023: 63.5 for women and 60.1 for men, a gap of 3.4 years. 70,116 people died; 27.3% of them were 65 or older and 35.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
61.8
Women
63.5
Men
60.1
Life expectancy at 65
12.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
71.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
97.2
Deaths
70,116
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
242
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
197
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2023'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
068.8282.1263.560.1
1-46.717.3367.064.1
5-91.611.9464.762.0
10-141.071.3760.257.5
15-191.512.2455.552.9
20-241.862.9050.948.5
25-292.182.7246.444.2
30-342.702.9241.939.7
35-393.483.6837.435.3
40-444.605.0433.030.9
45-496.157.3728.726.6
50-548.7611.2124.522.5
55-5912.5817.1920.518.7
60-6420.2127.1816.715.1
65-6932.7442.6013.211.9
70-7456.1868.1010.19.1
75-7992.59107.067.56.9
80-84145.22164.295.65.1
85-89219.11247.904.13.7
90-94309.10346.033.12.8
95-99427.46467.592.32.1
100+555.56594.111.81.7