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

Somalia

1957

Life expectancy: 42.9

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

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-5 -1 1957 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 42.9 years in 1957: 44.4 for women and 41.5 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 57,747 people died; 10.7% of them were 65 or older and 52.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

42.9

Women

44.4

Men

41.5

Life expectancy at 65

11.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

143.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

243.0

Deaths

57,747

Deaths per 1,000 people

21.7

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

450

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

392

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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	145.41	171.58	44.4	41.5
1-4	30.67	31.81	50.1	48.0
5-9	10.04	10.17	52.4	50.2
10-14	5.32	5.18	50.0	47.7
15-19	5.70	6.00	46.3	43.9
20-24	6.61	8.50	42.5	40.1
25-29	7.73	9.01	38.9	36.8
30-34	8.94	9.62	35.3	33.3
35-39	10.22	10.88	31.8	29.9
40-44	11.38	13.16	28.3	26.4
45-49	12.45	15.83	24.9	23.0
50-54	15.50	20.07	21.3	19.7
55-59	21.01	26.25	17.8	16.5
60-64	30.84	36.83	14.5	13.5
65-69	47.03	53.51	11.5	10.7
70-74	73.32	82.53	8.9	8.2
75-79	111.27	125.39	6.7	6.2
80-84	170.07	190.98	5.0	4.5
85-89	246.27	283.93	3.7	3.3
90-94	341.04	397.18	2.8	2.4
95-99	449.69	523.50	2.2	1.9
100+	569.70	649.56	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Somalia by year

Mortality in Somalia, 1957

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