Mortality in Zambia, 2018

Zambia
2018
Life expectancy: 62.1
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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-5 -1   2018  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Zambia was 62.1 years in 2018: 64.5 for women and 59.7 for men, a gap of 4.8 years. 121,767 people died; 18.8% of them were 65 or older and 32.4% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
62.1
Women
64.5
Men
59.7
Life expectancy at 65
12.4
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
43.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
62.7
Deaths
121,767
Deaths per 1,000 people
6.8
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
328
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
235
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 2018'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.
WomenMen
Show the life table data
AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
040.4449.8164.559.7
1-44.785.3866.261.7
5-91.351.6063.459.0
10-141.021.2458.854.5
15-191.552.0854.149.8
20-242.213.2749.545.3
25-292.884.1645.041.0
30-343.665.3140.636.8
35-394.716.9936.332.7
40-445.999.0332.228.8
45-497.7111.8028.125.0
50-5410.4915.8024.121.3
55-5914.3621.0020.217.9
60-6421.3729.9616.514.6
65-6933.7744.7513.111.5
70-7457.4872.4310.08.8
75-7993.98115.467.56.6
80-84144.50175.815.64.9
85-89211.29249.384.23.7
90-94294.75336.263.22.9
95-99397.30440.932.52.2
100+515.31555.161.91.8