Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex

Southern Africa

1957

Life expectancy: 49.9

Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1 1957 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Southern Africa was 49.9 years in 1957: 51.7 for women and 48.2 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 280,052 people died; 18.1% 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.

Key indicators, 1957

Life expectancy at birth

49.9

Women

51.7

Men

48.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.0

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

111.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

173.2

Deaths

280,052

Deaths per 1,000 people

16.2

Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

431

Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)

348

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1957's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1957

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.

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Show the life table data

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	113.14	128.66	51.7	48.2
1-4	17.91	18.33	56.8	53.6
5-9	4.51	4.69	56.8	53.5
10-14	3.01	3.05	53.1	49.8
15-19	3.76	4.12	48.9	45.5
20-24	5.06	6.16	44.7	41.4
25-29	6.23	7.37	40.8	37.6
30-34	7.25	8.78	37.0	33.9
35-39	8.46	10.78	33.3	30.3
40-44	9.74	13.01	29.6	26.9
45-49	11.29	15.91	26.0	23.5
50-54	14.51	20.37	22.3	20.2
55-59	19.11	26.05	18.8	17.1
60-64	28.29	36.69	15.5	14.2
65-69	42.78	52.90	12.4	11.5
70-74	64.17	75.78	9.8	9.2
75-79	92.23	100.62	7.6	7.4
80-84	141.81	144.60	5.6	5.7
85-89	212.44	199.30	4.1	4.4
90-94	321.52	283.86	2.9	3.3
95-99	468.28	402.81	2.1	2.4
100+	604.74	534.90	1.7	1.9

Mortality in Southern Africa by year

Mortality in Southern Africa, 1957

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