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

Sudan

1988

Life expectancy: 55.0

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

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-5 -1 1988 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Sudan was 55.0 years in 1988: 58.1 for women and 52.1 for men, a gap of 6.0 years. 259,390 people died; 14.5% of them were 65 or older and 47.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1988

Life expectancy at birth

55.0

Women

58.1

Men

52.1

Life expectancy at 65

12.9

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

84.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

136.3

Deaths

259,390

Deaths per 1,000 people

12.3

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

361

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

252

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1988's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1988

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	82.39	97.29	58.2	52.1
1-4	14.17	15.07	62.0	56.3
5-9	4.02	5.59	61.5	55.7
10-14	2.43	3.11	57.7	52.2
15-19	2.86	4.41	53.4	48.0
20-24	3.53	6.75	49.1	44.0
25-29	4.12	7.07	45.0	40.5
30-34	4.68	7.36	40.9	36.8
35-39	5.39	8.04	36.8	33.1
40-44	6.53	9.50	32.7	29.4
45-49	7.50	11.43	28.7	25.7
50-54	10.01	15.08	24.7	22.0
55-59	13.46	19.69	20.8	18.6
60-64	20.41	28.43	17.1	15.2
65-69	32.32	42.22	13.7	12.1
70-74	52.14	65.24	10.6	9.4
75-79	82.84	100.88	8.0	7.1
80-84	132.70	157.09	5.9	5.2
85-89	201.00	241.04	4.3	3.7
90-94	292.94	369.05	3.2	2.6
95-99	426.24	509.01	2.3	1.9
100+	566.93	658.81	1.8	1.5

Mortality in Sudan by year

Mortality in Sudan, 1988

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