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

Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1978

Zimbabwe
1978
Life expectancy: 54.7
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1978  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe was 54.7 years in 1978: 61.2 for women and 49.0 for men, a gap of 12.1 years. 83,036 people died; 17.9% of them were 65 or older and 40.2% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
54.7
Women
61.2
Men
49.0
Life expectancy at 65
13.0
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
70.5
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
112.2
Deaths
83,036
Deaths per 1,000 people
12.7
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
495
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
237
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1978'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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AgeDeath rate, women (‰)Death rate, men (‰)Years left, womenYears left, men
067.1781.4161.249.0
1-410.9012.1864.352.1
5-92.773.1563.150.6
10-141.812.2659.046.4
15-192.306.1354.541.9
20-243.0212.9150.138.1
25-293.5313.7545.835.4
30-344.1013.4541.632.8
35-394.9713.7337.429.9
40-446.1514.6633.326.9
45-497.3116.6929.223.7
50-549.6319.9525.220.6
55-5912.9925.2321.317.4
60-6419.6234.0217.614.4
65-6930.5948.1514.111.7
70-7449.7371.2311.19.2
75-7978.40104.758.57.0
80-84120.62157.286.45.3
85-89180.98230.744.83.9
90-94257.75322.363.62.9
95-99354.51436.442.72.2
100+469.97564.622.11.8