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

Sudan

1978

Life expectancy: 53.3

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

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-5 -1 1978 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sudan was 53.3 years in 1978: 54.9 for women and 51.8 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 208,322 people died; 13.3% of them were 65 or older and 49.0% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1978

Life expectancy at birth

53.3

Women

54.9

Men

51.8

Life expectancy at 65

12.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

92.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

149.5

Deaths

208,322

Deaths per 1,000 people

13.3

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

348

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

294

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1978

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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Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	90.78	105.48	54.9	51.8
1-4	16.08	16.79	59.0	56.4
5-9	5.64	5.93	58.8	56.2
10-14	3.20	3.23	55.4	52.8
15-19	3.66	4.17	51.2	48.6
20-24	4.40	5.95	47.1	44.6
25-29	5.13	6.25	43.1	40.9
30-34	5.86	6.69	39.2	37.1
35-39	6.72	7.53	35.3	33.2
40-44	7.85	9.13	31.4	29.4
45-49	8.83	11.15	27.5	25.7
50-54	11.49	14.90	23.7	22.0
55-59	15.50	19.58	19.9	18.5
60-64	23.25	28.47	16.3	15.2
65-69	36.33	42.43	13.0	12.1
70-74	57.80	65.90	10.1	9.3
75-79	90.36	102.28	7.6	7.0
80-84	142.03	158.79	5.6	5.2
85-89	211.63	242.68	4.2	3.7
90-94	317.68	370.16	3.0	2.6
95-99	434.93	508.63	2.3	1.9
100+	570.68	655.14	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Sudan by year

Mortality in Sudan, 1978

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