Mortality in Southern Africa, 2045

Southern Africa
2045
Life expectancy: 69.6
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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-5 -1   2045  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Southern Africa is projected at 69.6 years in 2045: 73.2 for women and 65.9 for men, a gap of 7.3 years. 889,644 people are projected to die; 50.8% of them would be 65 or older and 3.2% children under five. The most common age at death is projected to be 60-64. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Life expectancy at birth
69.6
Women
73.2
Men
65.9
Life expectancy at 65
16.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
15.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
21.0
Deaths
889,644
Deaths per 1,000 people
10.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
299
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
185
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2045'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
012.8018.5773.265.9
1-41.171.6573.166.2
5-90.280.4569.562.6
10-140.300.4864.657.7
15-190.651.1159.752.9
20-241.112.1154.848.1
25-291.843.1950.143.6
30-342.714.3445.639.3
35-393.685.7941.235.1
40-444.907.7536.931.0
45-496.2110.7532.727.2
50-548.1814.9928.723.5
55-5911.5020.9324.820.1
60-6416.0128.8321.117.1
65-6923.5240.0217.614.3
70-7433.7753.1514.512.0
75-7950.0172.5411.79.9
80-8470.1791.939.38.2
85-89103.81125.237.26.5
90-94150.20164.725.65.2
95-99215.46215.584.34.2
100+283.01315.453.53.2