Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2024

Sierra Leone
2024
Life expectancy: 62.0
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 is projected at 62.0 years in 2024: 63.7 for women and 60.2 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 70,955 people are projected to die; 27.7% of them would be 65 or older and 35.0% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
62.0
Women
63.7
Men
60.2
Life expectancy at 65
12.6
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
70.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
95.7
Deaths
70,955
Deaths per 1,000 people
8.2
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
240
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
195
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2024'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
067.5880.9863.760.2
1-46.597.2367.164.2
5-91.581.9264.862.0
10-141.051.3560.357.6
15-191.482.2255.653.0
20-241.832.8651.048.6
25-292.152.6946.544.2
30-342.662.8941.939.8
35-393.443.6537.535.3
40-444.555.0033.130.9
45-496.107.3228.826.6
50-548.6911.1524.622.5
55-5912.5017.1120.618.7
60-6420.1127.0716.715.1
65-6932.6142.4613.211.9
70-7455.9867.9010.19.2
75-7992.32106.807.56.9
80-84144.88163.955.65.1
85-89218.70247.474.13.7
90-94308.65345.543.12.8
95-99426.97467.042.32.1
100+550.63588.481.81.7