Western Africa Mortality 1990: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Western Africa

1990

Life expectancy: 47.7

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Western Africa was 47.7 years in 1990: 49.1 for women and 46.3 for men, a gap of 2.9 years. 3,270,090 people died; 13.9% of them were 65 or older and 50.5% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1990

Life expectancy at birth

47.7

Women

49.1

Men

46.3

Life expectancy at 65

11.6

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

114.4

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

203.4

Deaths

3,270,090

Deaths per 1,000 people

17.6

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

399

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

342

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1990's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1990

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	114.36	133.47	49.1	46.3
1-4	26.10	27.48	53.9	51.7
5-9	7.20	7.08	55.6	53.4
10-14	3.96	3.79	52.6	50.3
15-19	4.58	4.83	48.6	46.2
20-24	5.49	7.08	44.7	42.2
25-29	6.37	7.45	40.8	38.7
30-34	7.28	8.03	37.1	35.1
35-39	8.33	9.10	33.3	31.4
40-44	9.40	11.05	29.7	27.7
45-49	10.46	13.47	26.0	24.2
50-54	13.39	17.47	22.2	20.7
55-59	18.19	23.05	18.6	17.3
60-64	27.49	33.05	15.1	14.1
65-69	42.64	48.69	12.0	11.2
70-74	68.01	75.71	9.2	8.6
75-79	105.77	116.98	6.9	6.4
80-84	163.29	179.52	5.1	4.7
85-89	237.20	268.40	3.8	3.4
90-94	339.30	388.34	2.8	2.5
95-99	451.14	511.62	2.2	1.9
100+	578.10	624.96	1.7	1.6

Mortality in Western Africa by year

Mortality in Western Africa, 1990

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