Mortality in Zambia, 1950

Zambia
1950
Life expectancy: 46.8
Who dies: share of all deaths, by age and sex
Hover a bar for the number of deaths. Top-heavy where people live long lives, wide at the bottom where many children die.
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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Life expectancy at birth in Zambia was 46.8 years in 1950: 47.9 for women and 45.7 for men, a gap of 2.2 years. 43,741 people died; 8.9% of them were 65 or older and 60.1% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
46.8
Women
47.9
Men
45.7
Life expectancy at 65
13.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
126.2
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
242.5
Deaths
43,741
Deaths per 1,000 people
18.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
346
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
313
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1950's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.
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
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
0128.61148.3647.945.7
1-435.5737.2053.351.8
5-98.088.0257.155.7
10-144.664.2554.352.9
15-194.734.4750.548.9
20-245.725.9846.745.0
25-296.406.2443.041.3
30-346.846.7039.337.5
35-397.417.7035.633.7
40-448.129.0531.829.9
45-498.9411.0228.026.2
50-5411.4914.5224.222.5
55-5915.3219.1320.519.0
60-6423.6628.1216.915.7
65-6935.8641.2713.712.7
70-7454.4161.4810.910.0
75-7979.7391.608.57.7
80-84117.22136.816.55.8
85-89175.19205.144.94.3
90-94248.11288.413.73.3
95-99339.80392.092.82.5
100+448.93506.892.22.0