Mortality in South Sudan, 2015

South Sudan
2015
Life expectancy: 39.8
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 South Sudan was 39.8 years in 2015: 42.9 for women and 36.9 for men, a gap of 5.9 years. 244,749 people died; 11.4% of them were 65 or older and 42.7% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
39.8
Women
42.9
Men
36.9
Life expectancy at 65
10.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
134.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
244.7
Deaths
244,749
Deaths per 1,000 people
22.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
586
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
408
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2015'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
0141.89153.5042.936.9
1-435.1934.0548.241.9
5-911.7211.8751.243.6
10-146.557.2049.141.2
15-195.429.3745.737.6
20-246.2615.0141.834.3
25-297.1315.7438.131.7
30-347.9815.4934.429.1
35-399.3016.6230.726.3
40-4411.5418.6527.023.4
45-4913.9522.0223.520.4
50-5418.3627.6820.017.5
55-5924.7035.3016.714.7
60-6436.6147.9913.512.0
65-6955.6868.1310.79.6
70-7483.3497.808.47.6
75-79111.84129.586.55.9
80-84180.93206.724.64.1
85-89288.88341.623.22.7
90-94485.88621.552.01.6
95-991000.00545.871.01.8
100+1000.00641.521.01.6