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

Yemen

1999

Life expectancy: 62.3

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

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Yemen

Life expectancy at birth in Yemen was 62.3 years in 1999: 64.2 for women and 60.4 for men, a gap of 3.8 years. 156,067 people died; 22.2% of them were 65 or older and 47.9% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Key indicators, 1999

Life expectancy at birth

62.3

Women

64.2

Men

60.4

Life expectancy at 65

13.1

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

69.3

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

96.1

Deaths

156,067

Deaths per 1,000 people

8.2

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

252

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

191

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1999's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1999

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	67.28	78.80	64.2	60.4
1-4	7.41	7.27	67.5	64.2
5-9	1.14	1.59	65.5	62.1
10-14	0.96	1.19	60.9	57.5
15-19	1.45	1.96	56.2	52.9
20-24	1.98	2.79	51.6	48.4
25-29	2.31	2.90	47.0	44.0
30-34	2.72	3.26	42.6	39.6
35-39	3.32	4.10	38.1	35.2
40-44	4.24	5.56	33.7	30.9
45-49	5.81	7.95	29.4	26.7
50-54	8.33	11.79	25.2	22.7
55-59	12.16	17.78	21.1	18.9
60-64	18.95	27.04	17.3	15.4
65-69	30.45	41.14	13.7	12.3
70-74	50.58	63.83	10.6	9.5
75-79	83.54	100.02	7.9	7.1
80-84	137.40	155.83	5.7	5.2
85-89	212.45	239.39	4.1	3.7
90-94	329.88	366.90	2.9	2.6
95-99	460.95	505.89	2.1	2.0
100+	611.17	654.24	1.6	1.5

Mortality in Yemen by year

Mortality in Yemen, 1999

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