Mortality in Sierra Leone, 2029

Sierra Leone
2029
Life expectancy: 62.8
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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-5 -1   2029  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sierra Leone is projected at 62.8 years in 2029: 64.7 for women and 61.0 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 74,942 people are projected to die; 30.3% of them would be 65 or older and 30.9% 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
62.8
Women
64.7
Men
61.0
Life expectancy at 65
12.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
64.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
88.3
Deaths
74,942
Deaths per 1,000 people
7.9
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
233
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
187
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2029'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
061.1074.8764.761.1
1-46.036.7667.764.7
5-91.471.8365.362.4
10-140.981.2860.758.0
15-191.382.1056.053.3
20-241.722.7351.448.9
25-292.022.5846.844.5
30-342.512.7942.340.1
35-393.253.5237.835.6
40-444.334.8333.331.2
45-495.827.0829.026.9
50-548.3610.8324.822.7
55-5912.0916.6420.718.9
60-6419.5426.4116.915.3
65-6931.8341.5513.312.1
70-7454.8066.6210.29.3
75-7990.63105.087.66.9
80-84142.80161.835.65.1
85-89216.23244.994.13.7
90-94306.23343.263.12.8
95-99424.50465.012.32.1
100+548.82587.651.81.7