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

Mortality in Zimbabwe, 1998

Zimbabwe
1998
Life expectancy: 47.6
Life expectancy at birth, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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-5 -1   1998  +1 +5

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Life expectancy at birth in Zimbabwe was 47.6 years in 1998: 49.2 for women and 46.0 for men, a gap of 3.1 years. 174,037 people died; 18.9% of them were 65 or older and 21.3% children under five. The most common age at death was 0-4. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Life expectancy at birth
47.6
Women
49.2
Men
46.0
Life expectancy at 65
11.5
Infant deaths per 1,000 births
62.7
Under-5 deaths per 1,000 births
97.2
Deaths
174,037
Deaths per 1,000 people
15.0
Men dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
648
Women dying between 15 and 60 (per 1,000)
580
Life expectancy is a period measure: how long a newborn would live if 1998'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
059.7471.8849.246.0
1-49.009.8351.148.4
5-92.422.8948.946.3
10-142.122.3544.541.9
15-194.014.1040.037.4
20-247.697.7135.733.1
25-2912.8112.5332.029.3
30-3417.3018.2829.026.0
35-3921.3024.6826.323.2
40-4423.2029.2124.021.0
45-4925.3833.0721.718.9
50-5428.6137.2019.316.8
55-5933.1241.8716.914.8
60-6441.8152.6614.512.6
65-6954.1065.0012.210.7
70-7467.0281.1210.38.9
75-7984.11106.208.47.1
80-84114.61149.456.65.5
85-89174.70216.204.94.2
90-94252.19298.693.63.2
95-99350.82398.702.72.4
100+469.81512.112.12.0