Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1975

Zimbabwe
1975
Life expectancy: 58.2
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   1975  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe was 58.2 years in 1975: 61.2 for women and 55.4 for men, a gap of 5.9 years. 67,391 people died; 19.4% of them were 65 or older and 46.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
58.2
Women
61.2
Men
55.4
Life expectancy at 65
13.2
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
71.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
114.2
Deaths
67,391
Deaths per 1,000 people
11.1
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
338
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
229
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1975'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
068.0582.5961.255.4
1-411.1512.5264.559.0
5-92.833.2263.358.0
10-141.852.1159.253.9
15-192.263.0254.749.4
20-242.904.6050.345.1
25-293.435.2846.041.1
30-343.986.0941.837.1
35-394.757.4137.533.2
40-445.719.1133.429.4
45-496.9111.5029.325.6
50-549.3115.2625.222.0
55-5912.7920.2421.318.5
60-6419.7029.2417.515.2
65-6930.8642.9414.112.2
70-7450.2565.6111.09.5
75-7979.1899.738.47.3
80-84121.67149.706.45.5
85-89182.37218.404.74.1
90-94259.55302.273.63.1
95-99356.65405.012.72.4
100+472.34519.972.11.9