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

Somalia

2014

Life expectancy: 54.4

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 54.4 years in 2014: 56.6 for women and 52.4 for men, a gap of 4.2 years. 168,571 people died; 12.6% of them were 65 or older and 49.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 2014

Life expectancy at birth

54.4

Women

56.6

Men

52.4

Life expectancy at 65

12.8

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

85.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

137.6

Deaths

168,571

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.6

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

357

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

277

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2014's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 2014

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	84.12	97.62	56.6	52.4
1-4	14.48	15.00	60.4	56.6
5-9	4.93	5.28	59.9	56.0
10-14	2.84	2.94	56.3	52.5
15-19	3.31	4.36	52.1	48.2
20-24	4.03	6.81	47.9	44.2
25-29	4.70	7.10	43.9	40.6
30-34	5.35	7.33	39.8	37.0
35-39	6.16	7.95	35.9	33.3
40-44	7.33	9.33	31.9	29.6
45-49	8.32	11.20	28.0	25.9
50-54	10.93	14.80	24.1	22.2
55-59	14.71	19.32	20.3	18.7
60-64	22.13	27.90	16.6	15.3
65-69	34.77	41.51	13.3	12.3
70-74	55.58	64.15	10.3	9.5
75-79	87.25	99.26	7.8	7.2
80-84	138.24	154.86	5.8	5.3
85-89	207.53	238.32	4.3	3.8
90-94	299.17	346.90	3.1	2.8
95-99	408.55	474.53	2.4	2.1
100+	534.56	613.61	1.9	1.6

Mortality in Somalia by year

Mortality in Somalia, 2014

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