Life expectancy at birth in Uganda was 49.3 years in 1968: 51.5 for women and 47.3 for men, a gap of 4.2 years. 160,384 people died; 10.0% of them were 65 or older and 55.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1968

Life expectancy at birth

49.3

Women

51.5

Men

47.3

Life expectancy at 65

12.3

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

113.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

197.2

Deaths

160,384

Deaths per 1,000 people

16.5

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

385

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

311

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1968's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1968

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	111.74	133.60	51.5	47.3
1-4	23.81	26.73	56.5	52.8
5-9	5.68	6.25	57.9	54.5
10-14	3.51	3.64	54.5	51.2
15-19	3.93	4.30	50.4	47.1
20-24	5.00	6.09	46.4	43.1
25-29	5.85	6.81	42.5	39.3
30-34	6.52	7.69	38.7	35.6
35-39	7.33	9.11	34.9	31.9
40-44	8.26	10.81	31.1	28.3
45-49	9.35	13.14	27.3	24.7
50-54	12.07	17.01	23.4	21.2
55-59	16.07	22.03	19.7	17.9
60-64	24.41	31.67	16.2	14.6
65-69	37.57	46.37	12.9	11.7
70-74	59.67	70.71	10.1	9.1
75-79	91.36	107.27	7.8	7.0
80-84	136.50	159.97	5.9	5.2
85-89	200.91	232.77	4.4	3.9
90-94	281.53	319.60	3.3	3.0
95-99	381.21	425.69	2.5	2.3
100+	496.72	541.30	2.0	1.9

Mortality in Uganda by year

Mortality in Uganda, 1968

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