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

Somalia

1954

Life expectancy: 42.3

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 42.3 years in 1954: 43.8 for women and 40.8 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 54,772 people died; 9.8% of them were 65 or older and 53.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1954

Life expectancy at birth

42.3

Women

43.8

Men

40.8

Life expectancy at 65

11.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

147.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

249.0

Deaths

54,772

Deaths per 1,000 people

22.2

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

457

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

399

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1954's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1954

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	149.31	176.37	43.8	40.8
1-4	31.59	32.80	49.6	47.4
5-9	10.32	10.46	52.0	49.8
10-14	5.46	5.32	49.6	47.3
15-19	5.84	6.14	46.0	43.5
20-24	6.76	8.69	42.2	39.8
25-29	7.91	9.21	38.6	36.5
30-34	9.15	9.84	35.1	33.1
35-39	10.47	11.14	31.6	29.6
40-44	11.64	13.46	28.1	26.2
45-49	12.72	16.19	24.7	22.8
50-54	15.80	20.48	21.1	19.5
55-59	21.43	26.77	17.7	16.4
60-64	31.42	37.49	14.4	13.3
65-69	47.85	54.41	11.4	10.6
70-74	74.54	83.91	8.8	8.1
75-79	112.95	127.36	6.7	6.1
80-84	172.37	193.79	4.9	4.5
85-89	249.13	287.59	3.7	3.2
90-94	344.28	401.44	2.8	2.4
95-99	453.10	527.92	2.2	1.9
100+	572.64	653.47	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Somalia by year

Mortality in Somalia, 1954

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