Mortality in South Sudan, 2018

South Sudan
2018
Life expectancy: 51.9
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 51.9 years in 2018: 54.7 for women and 49.2 for men, a gap of 5.5 years. 125,762 people died; 14.3% of them were 65 or older and 35.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
51.9
Women
54.7
Men
49.2
Life expectancy at 65
12.1
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
84.3
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
142.7
Deaths
125,762
Deaths per 1,000 people
12.4
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
421
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
298
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
084.4894.7054.749.2
1-416.6516.5558.452.9
5-96.166.9158.352.4
10-143.514.0855.049.2
15-193.545.5651.045.1
20-244.258.6246.841.3
25-294.929.0242.838.0
30-345.549.1738.834.7
35-396.429.9834.831.2
40-447.8611.5730.827.7
45-499.2513.8727.024.2
50-5412.3018.0723.120.7
55-5916.5723.4219.417.4
60-6424.9433.1515.914.3
65-6938.8948.5312.711.4
70-7460.8772.959.88.8
75-7990.62106.487.56.7
80-84146.46169.585.44.7
85-89231.83302.873.73.0
90-94429.99788.932.21.3
95-991000.00999.921.01.0
100+1000.00932.841.01.1