Mortality in Somalia, 1975

Somalia
1975
Life expectancy: 44.5
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.
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-5 -1   1975  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 44.5 years in 1975: 45.9 for women and 43.1 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 86,262 people died; 13.4% of them were 65 or older and 50.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
44.5
Women
45.9
Men
43.1
Life expectancy at 65
11.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
134.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
229.8
Deaths
86,262
Deaths per 1,000 people
20.3
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
430
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
372
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1975'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
0136.71158.3245.943.1
1-429.1029.9051.549.2
5-99.429.6253.651.2
10-145.115.0551.148.6
15-195.235.6347.344.8
20-246.077.8643.541.0
25-297.068.3339.837.6
30-348.128.9536.134.0
35-399.2910.1632.530.5
40-4410.5312.3228.926.9
45-4911.6914.8825.323.5
50-5414.8119.1421.720.1
55-5920.0524.9618.216.9
60-6429.5235.3014.813.8
65-6945.1151.6011.811.0
70-7469.9679.019.18.4
75-79105.14118.677.06.4
80-84162.31182.425.14.7
85-89239.10276.683.83.3
90-94337.83397.382.82.4
95-99457.73540.762.11.8
100+603.50653.941.71.5