Mortality in South Sudan, 2024

South Sudan
2024
Life expectancy: 57.7
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 is projected at 57.7 years in 2024: 60.7 for women and 54.8 for men, a gap of 6.0 years. 117,290 people are projected to die; 19.5% of them would be 65 or older and 28.6% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
57.7
Women
60.7
Men
54.8
Life expectancy at 65
13.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
63.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
98.2
Deaths
117,290
Deaths per 1,000 people
9.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
355
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
246
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2024'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
061.4571.2760.854.8
1-49.379.7063.557.7
5-93.905.6561.955.9
10-142.283.2458.152.5
15-192.764.3053.748.3
20-243.416.3149.444.3
25-293.996.6345.240.6
30-344.537.0141.136.9
35-395.217.8037.033.1
40-446.339.3632.929.3
45-497.3011.3628.825.6
50-549.8015.0824.822.0
55-5913.2219.7720.918.5
60-6420.1428.6317.215.1
65-6931.9742.5913.712.1
70-7451.6766.0410.79.3
75-7982.24102.288.17.0
80-84131.94158.955.95.1
85-89200.13243.334.43.7
90-94292.28373.593.22.6
95-99428.89529.092.31.9
100+568.31636.741.81.6