Mortality in Somalia, 2017

Somalia
2017
Life expectancy: 52.2
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.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   2017  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 52.2 years in 2017: 54.3 for women and 50.2 for men, a gap of 4.1 years. 209,922 people died; 12.2% of them were 65 or older and 50.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
52.2
Women
54.3
Men
50.2
Life expectancy at 65
12.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
94.4
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
157.4
Deaths
209,922
Deaths per 1,000 people
14.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
376
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
291
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2017'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
094.33107.3854.350.2
1-418.0218.3058.554.7
5-95.856.2658.854.7
10-143.433.6055.451.4
15-193.504.6651.347.3
20-244.206.9947.243.4
25-294.857.3343.239.8
30-345.507.6639.136.2
35-396.368.4335.232.5
40-447.699.9831.228.8
45-498.9112.1127.325.1
50-5411.8416.0823.521.6
55-5915.9721.0019.818.1
60-6423.9930.2016.214.9
65-6937.3844.7512.911.9
70-7458.8368.1810.09.2
75-7989.26102.177.67.0
80-84142.90160.635.65.1
85-89218.69251.394.13.6
90-94320.67372.873.02.6
95-99446.93523.372.21.9
100+595.52699.551.71.4