Mortality in Somalia, 2018

Somalia
2018
Life expectancy: 54.8
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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Life expectancy at birth in Somalia was 54.8 years in 2018: 56.9 for women and 52.7 for men, a gap of 4.2 years. 191,468 people died; 13.2% of them were 65 or older and 48.8% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
54.8
Women
56.9
Men
52.7
Life expectancy at 65
12.8
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
83.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
136.3
Deaths
191,468
Deaths per 1,000 people
12.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
352
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
270
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2018'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
082.6495.2256.952.7
1-414.6415.0660.756.8
5-94.875.2760.356.2
10-142.863.0156.752.7
15-193.144.2652.548.4
20-243.826.5548.344.4
25-294.446.8444.140.8
30-345.037.1040.137.2
35-395.817.7436.033.4
40-447.049.1232.029.6
45-498.1411.0428.125.9
50-5410.8414.7424.122.2
55-5914.6119.2720.318.7
60-6422.0727.9316.715.4
65-6934.6841.6313.312.3
70-7455.2463.9910.49.5
75-7985.7597.847.97.2
80-84137.17153.645.85.3
85-89209.11239.584.23.8
90-94305.51353.543.12.7
95-99423.59491.822.32.0
100+561.07652.361.81.5