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

Western Africa

1963

Life expectancy: 38.3

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

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-5 -1 1963 +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Western Africa was 38.3 years in 1963: 40.1 for women and 36.6 for men, a gap of 3.5 years. 2,380,634 people died; 11.1% of them were 65 or older and 55.6% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1963

Life expectancy at birth

38.3

Women

40.1

Men

36.6

Life expectancy at 65

10.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

152.5

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

308.7

Deaths

2,380,634

Deaths per 1,000 people

26.0

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

481

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

415

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1963's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1963

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	155.58	184.09	40.1	36.6
1-4	49.48	55.13	45.7	42.7
5-9	10.30	10.72	51.1	48.6
10-14	5.60	5.44	48.7	46.2
15-19	6.38	6.63	45.0	42.4
20-24	7.56	9.58	41.3	38.7
25-29	8.61	10.00	37.8	35.5
30-34	9.70	10.58	34.4	32.2
35-39	10.95	11.96	31.0	28.8
40-44	12.00	14.38	27.6	25.4
45-49	13.09	17.22	24.1	22.1
50-54	16.50	21.80	20.6	18.9
55-59	22.43	28.61	17.1	15.8
60-64	33.75	40.49	13.9	12.8
65-69	51.39	58.73	10.9	10.1
70-74	80.21	90.57	8.4	7.7
75-79	120.72	136.75	6.4	5.8
80-84	181.16	204.98	4.8	4.3
85-89	256.09	303.21	3.6	3.1
90-94	359.06	419.03	2.7	2.3
95-99	469.77	536.18	2.1	1.9
100+	591.12	637.59	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Western Africa by year

Mortality in Western Africa, 1963

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