Mortality in Uganda, 1961

Uganda
1961
Life expectancy: 46.3
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 Uganda was 46.3 years in 1961: 48.3 for women and 44.5 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 146,186 people died; 9.1% of them were 65 or older and 55.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
46.3
Women
48.3
Men
44.5
Life expectancy at 65
11.7
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
121.6
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
219.0
Deaths
146,186
Deaths per 1,000 people
18.6
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
421
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
352
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1961'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.
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Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0121.55144.1948.344.5
1-428.2731.3853.350.2
5-96.657.2655.552.6
10-144.084.2052.349.4
15-194.574.9048.345.4
20-245.917.0244.341.5
25-297.027.9540.637.9
30-347.839.0037.034.3
35-398.7610.5933.330.8
40-449.7212.3729.727.3
45-4910.8514.7426.123.9
50-5413.8218.7222.420.5
55-5918.1623.8018.817.3
60-6427.2933.8215.314.2
65-6941.8349.2412.211.3
70-7466.5775.159.58.8
75-79101.71113.947.26.7
80-84150.49169.175.55.0
85-89217.96243.964.13.8
90-94300.99332.163.12.9
95-99402.40439.382.42.2
100+518.16555.221.91.8