Zimbabwe Mortality 1951: Deaths by Age and Life Expectancy

Zimbabwe

1951

Life expectancy: 49.8

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

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Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe was 49.8 years in 1951: 52.1 for women and 47.6 for men, a gap of 4.5 years. 47,972 people died; 12.8% 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, 1951

Life expectancy at birth

49.8

Women

52.1

Men

47.6

Life expectancy at 65

12.5

Infant deaths per 1,000 births

101.6

Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births

180.9

Deaths

47,972

Deaths per 1,000 people

16.7

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

418

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

326

Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1951's death rates at each age stayed the same for their whole life.

Death rate by age, 1951

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

Age	Death rate, women (‰)	Death rate, men (‰)	Years left, women	Years left, men
0	100.56	118.16	52.1	47.6
1-4	22.54	24.21	56.5	52.4
5-9	5.36	5.80	57.6	53.5
10-14	3.37	3.52	54.1	50.1
15-19	3.91	4.35	50.0	45.9
20-24	5.14	6.41	46.0	41.9
25-29	6.19	7.54	42.1	38.1
30-34	7.00	8.80	38.3	34.5
35-39	7.92	10.58	34.6	30.9
40-44	8.89	12.49	30.9	27.5
45-49	10.02	14.96	27.2	24.1
50-54	12.81	18.94	23.5	20.8
55-59	16.87	23.98	19.8	17.6
60-64	25.30	33.81	16.4	14.5
65-69	37.89	48.13	13.2	11.7
70-74	57.53	70.89	10.4	9.2
75-79	85.53	104.79	8.1	7.1
80-84	127.24	154.31	6.2	5.4
85-89	190.42	224.38	4.6	4.0
90-94	269.76	308.37	3.4	3.1
95-99	369.47	411.07	2.6	2.4
100+	486.00	524.00	2.1	1.9

Mortality in Zimbabwe by year

Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1951

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