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

Yemen

1989

Life expectancy: 58.0

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Yemen

Life expectancy at birth in Yemen was 58.0 years in 1989: 59.8 for women and 56.2 for men, a gap of 3.6 years. 156,442 people died; 16.8% of them were 65 or older and 56.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1989

Life expectancy at birth

58.0

Women

59.8

Men

56.2

Life expectancy at 65

12.7

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

92.0

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

131.6

Deaths

156,442

Deaths per 1,000 people

11.7

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

293

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

229

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1989's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1989

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	90.96	105.16	59.8	56.2
1-4	11.40	11.05	64.4	61.3
5-9	1.76	2.16	63.3	60.0
10-14	1.44	1.58	58.9	55.6
15-19	2.09	2.50	54.3	51.0
20-24	2.79	3.56	49.8	46.6
25-29	3.21	3.77	45.5	42.4
30-34	3.72	4.27	41.2	38.2
35-39	4.40	5.28	36.9	34.0
40-44	5.36	6.95	32.7	29.8
45-49	6.94	9.50	28.5	25.8
50-54	9.73	13.65	24.4	21.9
55-59	13.83	19.87	20.5	18.2
60-64	21.29	29.72	16.7	14.9
65-69	33.24	44.40	13.3	11.9
70-74	54.13	67.94	10.3	9.2
75-79	87.75	105.42	7.7	6.9
80-84	141.36	162.05	5.6	5.1
85-89	215.35	245.98	4.1	3.7
90-94	328.39	372.77	2.9	2.6
95-99	454.83	509.84	2.2	1.9
100+	597.59	654.49	1.7	1.5

Mortality in Yemen by year

Mortality in Yemen, 1989

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