Mortality in Somalia, 1950

Somalia
1950
Life expectancy: 41.5
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 Somalia was 41.5 years in 1950: 42.9 for women and 40.0 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 49,470 people died; 8.7% of them were 65 or older and 52.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
41.5
Women
42.9
Men
40.0
Life expectancy at 65
10.9
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
151.8
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
257.1
Deaths
49,470
Deaths per 1,000 people
22.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
466
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
408
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950'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
0154.69182.9742.940.0
1-432.8734.1848.946.7
5-910.7210.8651.549.3
10-145.655.5249.246.9
15-196.036.3245.543.1
20-246.988.9541.839.4
25-298.169.4938.236.1
30-349.4510.1334.732.7
35-3910.8211.4831.329.3
40-4411.9913.8827.925.9
45-4913.0916.6824.422.6
50-5416.2121.0320.919.3
55-5921.9927.4817.516.2
60-6432.2038.4014.213.2
65-6948.9855.6411.210.4
70-7476.2085.798.78.0
75-79115.23130.066.66.0
80-84175.50197.624.94.4
85-89253.01292.573.63.2
90-94348.65407.222.82.4
95-99457.71533.922.21.9
100+576.64658.811.71.5