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

Somalia

1987

Life expectancy: 49.0

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-5 -1 1987 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 49.0 years in 1987: 50.5 for women and 47.6 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 124,944 people died; 13.9% of them were 65 or older and 51.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1987

Life expectancy at birth

49.0

Women

50.5

Men

47.6

Life expectancy at 65

12.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

112.7

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

187.9

Deaths

124,944

Deaths per 1,000 people

17.3

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

386

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

332

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1987's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1987

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	112.00	131.50	50.5	47.6
1-4	22.03	22.60	55.3	53.1
5-9	7.33	7.52	56.2	53.9
10-14	4.04	3.97	53.3	50.9
15-19	4.44	4.85	49.3	46.8
20-24	5.26	6.91	45.3	42.9
25-29	6.12	7.28	41.5	39.3
30-34	7.03	7.77	37.7	35.7
35-39	8.03	8.76	34.0	32.0
40-44	9.16	10.57	30.2	28.3
45-49	10.14	12.78	26.5	24.7
50-54	12.94	16.66	22.8	21.2
55-59	17.43	21.79	19.1	17.8
60-64	25.89	31.19	15.6	14.6
65-69	40.04	46.00	12.5	11.6
70-74	63.06	71.13	9.7	9.0
75-79	97.23	109.19	7.3	6.8
80-84	150.99	168.13	5.4	5.0
85-89	222.78	254.19	4.0	3.6
90-94	314.45	362.74	3.0	2.7
95-99	422.54	487.11	2.3	2.0
100+	545.38	619.43	1.8	1.6

Mortality in Somalia by year

Mortality in Somalia, 1987

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