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Burkina Faso life expectancy & odds of living to calculator

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Burkina Faso is ranked 188/197 for average life expectancy at birth, with 59.3 years for males, 63.6 years for females, and 61.5 years for both genders combined.

Burkina Faso life expectancy at birth by year

Average
Male
Female
Year Life expectancy, years
Total Male Female
1950 33 32.1 34.1
1951 33.4 32.4 34.5
1952 33.6 32.6 34.7
1953 33.9 32.9 35
1954 34.2 33.2 35.3
1955 34.5 33.5 35.6
1956 34.8 33.7 35.9
1957 35.1 34.1 36.2
1958 35.4 34.3 36.6
1959 35.7 34.6 36.9
1960 36.1 35 37.3
1961 36.4 35.3 37.6
1962 36.8 35.6 38
1963 37.1 36 38.3
1964 37.4 36.2 38.6
1965 37.8 36.6 39
1966 38.1 36.9 39.4
1967 38.4 37.2 39.7
1968 38.8 37.5 40.1
1969 39 37.8 40.4
1970 39.5 38.2 40.9
1971 39.9 38.5 41.3
1972 40.4 39.1 41.7
1973 40.9 39.6 42.3
1974 41.7 40.4 43
1975 42.5 41.2 43.8
1976 43.3 42.1 44.6
1977 44.2 42.9 45.4
1978 45 43.7 46.3
1979 45.7 44.4 47
1980 46.5 45.2 47.7
1981 46.9 45.6 48.1
1982 47.6 46.4 48.8
1983 48.1 46.9 49.2
1984 48.5 47.3 49.6
1985 48.7 47.6 49.8
1986 49 47.9 50
1987 49.1 48 50.1
1988 49.2 48.2 50.1
1989 49.3 48.3 50.2
1990 49.3 48.3 50.2
1991 49.3 48.3 50.3
1992 49.4 48.3 50.4
1993 49.4 48.3 50.5
1994 49.5 48.3 50.6
1995 49.6 48.3 50.7
1996 49.7 48.4 50.9
1997 49.6 48.2 50.8
1998 50.2 48.8 51.5
1999 50.5 49 51.8
2000 50.8 49.3 52.2
2001 51.2 49.7 52.6
2002 51.4 50 52.9
2003 52 50.5 53.4
2004 52.6 51.1 54
2005 53.3 51.8 54.7
2006 53.8 52.3 55.2
2007 54.4 52.9 55.8
2008 55.2 53.7 56.6
2009 55.8 54.2 57.2
2010 56.3 54.8 57.8
2011 57 55.4 58.5
2012 57.5 55.9 59
2013 57.9 56.3 59.4
2014 58.3 56.7 59.9
2015 58.8 57.1 60.4
2016 59.2 57.5 60.8
2017 59.6 57.9 61.2
2018 60 58.2 61.6
2019 60.2 58.3 61.9
2020 60.5 58.5 62.3
2021 60 58.2 61.8
2022 60.7 58.8 62.6
2023 61.1 58.9 63.2
2024 61.3 59.1 63.4
2025 61.5 59.3 63.6

Life expectancy is the average age of death for a hypothetical cohort of newborns if they experienced the age-specific mortality rates of one particular year throughout their entire life. It is a snapshot reflecting mortality rates at a given year that does not account for any future changes in these rates.

In Burkina Faso, healthy life expectancy at birth, defined by the World Health Organization as the average number of years a person can expect to live in full health, is 53.5 years for men and 55.6 for women, with a combined average of 54.6 years. People who reach 60 can expect an additional 12.4 healthy years, 11.6 for males and 13 for females.

Burkina Faso life expectancy calculator

This life expectancy calculator assesses the odds of living to 100, 95, 90, and below based on the current age for both males and females in Burkina Faso, also providing mean and median age of death. The calculations are based on the 2025 life tables (actuarial tables) from the UN World Population Prospects.


Mean remaining life expectancy: 40.1 Years

Mean expected age of death: 70.1 Years

Median expected age of death: 73.0 Years

Odds of living to

Target age Survival probability
Average Male Female
40 95.8% 95.3% 96.3%
50 89.8% 88.1% 91.4%
60 79.3% 75.7% 82.8%
65 70.7% 66.0% 75.2%
70 58.9% 53.4% 63.9%
75 43.1% 37.7% 48.0%
80 25.2% 20.9% 29.0%
85 10.2% 7.9% 12.2%
90 2.3% 1.6% 3.0%
95 0.2% 0.1% 0.3%
100 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

Remaining life expectancy by current age

Life expectancy is often mistaken for the average lifespan of an adult. An adult has already survived early-age mortality causes and is expected to have a longer lifespan than calculated from birth.

In Burkina Faso, total life expectancy is 77.3 years at age 65, 79.3 at 70, 81.7 at 75, and 84.7 years at 80 — significantly higher than the 61.5 years calculated at birth.

The chart and table below account for the remaining lifespan and display total life expectancy by age and gender in Burkina Faso.

Average
Male
Female
Current age, years Total life expectancy, years
Average Male Female
0 61.5 59.3 63.6
1 64.9 63 66.7
2 65.6 63.7 67.4
3 66.1 64.2 67.8
4 66.5 64.6 68.2
5 66.8 64.9 68.5
6 67 65.1 68.7
7 67.2 65.3 68.9
8 67.3 65.5 69
9 67.4 65.6 69.1
10 67.5 65.7 69.2
11 67.6 65.8 69.3
12 67.7 65.9 69.4
13 67.8 66 69.5
14 67.9 66.1 69.6
15 67.9 66.2 69.6
16 68 66.3 69.7
17 68.2 66.4 69.8
18 68.3 66.5 70
19 68.4 66.6 70.1
20 68.5 66.8 70.2
21 68.7 66.9 70.3
22 68.9 67.1 70.5
23 69 67.3 70.6
24 69.2 67.5 70.8
25 69.3 67.7 70.9
26 69.5 67.8 71
27 69.6 68 71.2
28 69.8 68.1 71.3
29 69.9 68.3 71.5
30 70.1 68.5 71.6
31 70.2 68.6 71.7
32 70.4 68.8 71.9
33 70.6 68.9 72
34 70.7 69.1 72.2
35 70.9 69.3 72.3
36 71 69.4 72.4
37 71.2 69.6 72.6
38 71.3 69.8 72.7
39 71.5 69.9 72.9
40 71.6 70.1 73
41 71.8 70.3 73.1
42 72 70.5 73.3
43 72.1 70.7 73.4
44 72.3 70.8 73.6
45 72.5 71 73.7
46 72.6 71.2 73.9
47 72.8 71.5 74
48 73 71.7 74.2
49 73.2 71.9 74.3
50 73.4 72.1 74.5
51 73.6 72.3 74.7
52 73.8 72.6 74.8
53 74 72.8 75
54 74.2 73.1 75.2
55 74.5 73.4 75.4
56 74.7 73.6 75.6
57 75 73.9 75.8
58 75.2 74.2 76
59 75.5 74.5 76.2
60 75.7 74.8 76.5
61 76 75.2 76.7
62 76.3 75.5 77
63 76.7 75.9 77.2
64 77 76.3 77.5
65 77.3 76.6 77.9
66 77.7 77 78.2
67 78.1 77.5 78.5
68 78.5 77.9 78.9
69 78.9 78.3 79.3
70 79.3 78.8 79.6
71 79.7 79.2 80.1
72 80.2 79.7 80.5
73 80.7 80.3 81
74 81.2 80.8 81.5
75 81.7 81.4 82
76 82.3 81.9 82.5
77 82.9 82.6 83.1
78 83.5 83.2 83.7
79 84.1 83.8 84.3
80 84.7 84.5 84.9
81 85.4 85.2 85.6
82 86.1 85.9 86.2
83 86.8 86.6 87
84 87.6 87.4 87.7
85 88.3 88.1 88.4
86 89.1 88.9 89.2
87 89.9 89.7 89.9
88 90.6 90.5 90.7
89 91.4 91.3 91.5
90 92.3 92.1 92.3
91 93.1 93 93.2
92 94 93.9 94
93 94.9 94.7 94.9
94 95.8 95.7 95.8
95 96.7 96.6 96.7
96 97.6 97.5 97.7
97 98.6 98.4 98.6
98 99.5 99.4 99.5
99 100.4 100.3 100.4
100 101.4 101.3 101.4

Probability of survival to age graph

The chart below shows the odds of living to all ages starting from birth: 68.2% of the newborn cohort in Burkina Faso are expected to survive to at least 60 years old, 50.7% will live to 70 years or older, 21.7% to 80+ years, and 2.02% will live past 90 years old.

For longevity rates starting from an age other than 0, use the probability of survival to an age calculator provided above.

Average
Male
Female
Age Survival probability
Average Male Female
1 94.7% 94% 95.3%
2 93.7% 93% 94.4%
3 93% 92.2% 93.7%
4 92.4% 91.6% 93.2%
5 92% 91.2% 92.8%
6 91.6% 90.8% 92.5%
7 91.4% 90.6% 92.2%
8 91.1% 90.3% 92%
9 91% 90.1% 91.8%
10 90.8% 90% 91.7%
11 90.7% 89.8% 91.5%
12 90.5% 89.7% 91.4%
13 90.4% 89.5% 91.3%
14 90.3% 89.4% 91.2%
15 90.1% 89.2% 91%
16 89.9% 89% 90.9%
17 89.7% 88.8% 90.7%
18 89.5% 88.6% 90.5%
19 89.3% 88.4% 90.3%
20 89% 88.1% 90%
21 88.8% 87.8% 89.8%
22 88.5% 87.4% 89.5%
23 88.2% 87.1% 89.3%
24 87.8% 86.7% 89%
25 87.5% 86.4% 88.8%
26 87.2% 86% 88.5%
27 86.9% 85.7% 88.2%
28 86.6% 85.3% 87.9%
29 86.3% 85% 87.6%
30 86% 84.7% 87.3%
31 85.6% 84.3% 87%
32 85.3% 83.9% 86.7%
33 85% 83.6% 86.4%
34 84.6% 83.2% 86.1%
35 84.3% 82.8% 85.8%
36 83.9% 82.4% 85.5%
37 83.5% 82% 85.2%
38 83.2% 81.6% 84.8%
39 82.8% 81.1% 84.5%
40 82.4% 80.7% 84.1%
41 81.9% 80.2% 83.7%
42 81.5% 79.7% 83.3%
43 81% 79.1% 83%
44 80.5% 78.6% 82.5%
45 80% 78% 82.1%
46 79.5% 77.4% 81.7%
47 79% 76.7% 81.3%
48 78.4% 76.1% 80.8%
49 77.8% 75.4% 80.3%
50 77.2% 74.6% 79.8%
51 76.5% 73.8% 79.3%
52 75.8% 73% 78.7%
53 75% 72.1% 78%
54 74.2% 71.1% 77.4%
55 73.4% 70.1% 76.7%
56 72.4% 69% 75.9%
57 71.5% 67.9% 75.1%
58 70.5% 66.7% 74.3%
59 69.4% 65.4% 73.3%
60 68.2% 64.1% 72.3%
61 66.9% 62.6% 71.2%
62 65.6% 61.1% 70%
63 64.1% 59.4% 68.7%
64 62.5% 57.7% 67.2%
65 60.8% 55.8% 65.6%
66 59% 53.9% 64%
67 57.1% 51.9% 62.1%
68 55.1% 49.8% 60.2%
69 52.9% 47.6% 58.1%
70 50.7% 45.2% 55.8%
71 48.2% 42.8% 53.4%
72 45.6% 40.2% 50.8%
73 42.9% 37.5% 47.9%
74 40% 34.7% 45%
75 37.1% 31.9% 41.9%
76 34% 29% 38.7%
77 31% 26.1% 35.4%
78 27.9% 23.2% 32.1%
79 24.7% 20.4% 28.7%
80 21.7% 17.7% 25.3%
81 18.7% 15.1% 22%
82 15.9% 12.6% 18.8%
83 13.3% 10.4% 15.8%
84 10.9% 8.41% 13.1%
85 8.73% 6.65% 10.6%
86 6.87% 5.14% 8.44%
87 5.28% 3.87% 6.56%
88 3.96% 2.83% 4.98%
89 2.87% 2% 3.66%
90 2.02% 1.36% 2.61%
91 1.36% 0.89% 1.79%
92 0.89% 0.56% 1.18%
93 0.56% 0.33% 0.75%
94 0.34% 0.19% 0.46%
95 0.2% 0.11% 0.28%
96 0.11% 0.06% 0.16%
97 0.06% 0.03% 0.09%
98 0.03% 0.01% 0.05%
99 0.02% 0.007% 0.02%
100 0.008% 0.003% 0.01%

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Odds of dying by age chart

Mortality rates vary throughout a lifetime. In Burkina Faso, the risk of dying is lowest at age 12 and increases afterward. The annual chance of dying is 5.34% in the birth year, 0.38% at age 30, 1.86% at 60, and 13.7% at 80.

Below is a graph displaying the probabilities of dying in Burkina Faso at any given age.

Average
Male
Female
Age Probability of dying
Average Male Female
0 5.34% 5.97% 4.69%
1 1.02% 1.11% 0.92%
2 0.78% 0.84% 0.72%
3 0.6% 0.64% 0.57%
4 0.47% 0.49% 0.45%
5 0.37% 0.38% 0.35%
6 0.29% 0.3% 0.28%
7 0.24% 0.25% 0.23%
8 0.2% 0.21% 0.19%
9 0.17% 0.19% 0.16%
10 0.16% 0.17% 0.14%
11 0.15% 0.16% 0.14%
12 0.15% 0.16% 0.13%
13 0.16% 0.17% 0.14%
14 0.17% 0.18% 0.15%
15 0.19% 0.2% 0.17%
16 0.21% 0.22% 0.2%
17 0.24% 0.25% 0.22%
18 0.26% 0.29% 0.24%
19 0.29% 0.32% 0.26%
20 0.31% 0.36% 0.27%
21 0.33% 0.39% 0.28%
22 0.34% 0.4% 0.28%
23 0.35% 0.41% 0.29%
24 0.35% 0.41% 0.3%
25 0.35% 0.4% 0.31%
26 0.36% 0.39% 0.32%
27 0.36% 0.39% 0.33%
28 0.36% 0.39% 0.33%
29 0.37% 0.4% 0.34%
30 0.38% 0.42% 0.34%
31 0.39% 0.43% 0.34%
32 0.4% 0.45% 0.35%
33 0.41% 0.46% 0.35%
34 0.42% 0.47% 0.36%
35 0.43% 0.48% 0.37%
36 0.44% 0.5% 0.39%
37 0.45% 0.51% 0.4%
38 0.47% 0.53% 0.42%
39 0.5% 0.56% 0.43%
40 0.52% 0.6% 0.45%
41 0.55% 0.63% 0.46%
42 0.57% 0.67% 0.47%
43 0.6% 0.71% 0.49%
44 0.62% 0.75% 0.5%
45 0.65% 0.78% 0.51%
46 0.68% 0.82% 0.53%
47 0.71% 0.87% 0.56%
48 0.76% 0.93% 0.6%
49 0.81% 0.99% 0.64%
50 0.87% 1.07% 0.69%
51 0.94% 1.15% 0.75%
52 1.01% 1.24% 0.8%
53 1.08% 1.33% 0.86%
54 1.16% 1.43% 0.92%
55 1.24% 1.53% 0.98%
56 1.32% 1.64% 1.05%
57 1.43% 1.77% 1.14%
58 1.55% 1.91% 1.24%
59 1.69% 2.08% 1.38%
60 1.86% 2.27% 1.53%
61 2.05% 2.47% 1.71%
62 2.26% 2.69% 1.91%
63 2.47% 2.93% 2.11%
64 2.7% 3.17% 2.33%
65 2.95% 3.44% 2.57%
66 3.22% 3.74% 2.83%
67 3.54% 4.07% 3.13%
68 3.9% 4.46% 3.49%
69 4.33% 4.91% 3.9%
70 4.82% 5.43% 4.39%
71 5.38% 6.02% 4.93%
72 5.99% 6.67% 5.53%
73 6.66% 7.39% 6.17%
74 7.38% 8.18% 6.87%
75 8.18% 9.05% 7.63%
76 9.05% 9.99% 8.47%
77 10% 11% 9.43%
78 11.2% 12.2% 10.5%
79 12.4% 13.4% 11.7%
80 13.7% 14.7% 13.1%
81 15.1% 16.1% 14.5%
82 16.6% 17.6% 15.9%
83 18.1% 19.2% 17.4%
84 19.6% 20.9% 18.9%
85 21.3% 22.7% 20.5%
86 23.1% 24.7% 22.2%
87 25.1% 26.9% 24.2%
88 27.4% 29.4% 26.4%
89 29.8% 32% 28.8%
90 32.4% 34.7% 31.3%
91 34.9% 37.3% 33.9%
92 37.3% 39.8% 36.3%
93 39.5% 42.2% 38.6%
94 41.5% 44.3% 40.6%
95 43.2% 46.3% 42.6%
96 44.9% 48.2% 44.5%
97 46.7% 50% 46.3%
98 48.4% 51.8% 48.2%
99 50.3% 53.4% 50%
100 52% 55.3% 51.9%

Death rate by age in Burkina Faso

The chart below shows the number of deaths in Burkina Faso by age and gender per a 100,000 cohort of newborns, illustrating the distribution of expected mortality throughout life.

In Burkina Faso, most deaths occur at age 0 for both sexes combined, at 0 for males, and 0 for females. The median age of death is indicated by vertical lines: 67.9 for men, 72.3 for women, and 70.3 combined — only half of the cohort is expected to live past that age.

Total
Male
Female
Age Death rate
Total Male Female
0 5,341 5,970 4,690
1 963 1,043 880
2 733 779 684
3 560 586 533
4 432 447 417
5 338 347 328
6 268.4 275.4 261.1
7 218.3 225.6 210.6
8 182.8 191.3 173.8
9 158.6 168.5 148.1
10 143.4 154.5 131.8
11 136 147.6 123.7
12 135.1 146.7 122.8
13 140.4 151.5 128.7
14 151.5 161.7 140.8
15 168 177.3 158.2
16 188.9 198.2 179.2
17 212.5 224 200.5
18 236.9 253.6 219.5
19 259.9 284.9 233.8
20 279.7 314 243.4
21 294.9 338 249.9
22 305 352 255.2
23 310 356 260.9
24 311 352 267.7
25 311 344 275.3
26 310 337 282.8
27 311 333 289
28 314 334 293.4
29 319 341 295.9
30 325 352 297.3
31 332 365 298.7
32 340 377 301
33 347 387 305
34 353 394 311
35 360 401 319
36 369 408 329
37 380 419 340
38 394 435 352
39 410 456 364
40 428 481 375
41 447 509 385
42 466 536 394
43 483 563 402
44 500 587 411
45 518 612 422
46 538 638 437
47 563 668 457
48 594 705 483
49 631 748 516
50 674 797 553
51 720 851 593
52 767 906 633
53 813 961 672
54 859 1,016 711
55 907 1,072 751
56 959 1,132 798
57 1,020 1,199 854
58 1,092 1,275 924
59 1,176 1,359 1,009
60 1,271 1,452 1,108
61 1,374 1,548 1,218
62 1,479 1,645 1,334
63 1,585 1,739 1,451
64 1,689 1,831 1,568
65 1,793 1,921 1,686
66 1,902 2,015 1,811
67 2,019 2,114 1,947
68 2,149 2,222 2,100
69 2,291 2,337 2,269
70 2,441 2,457 2,449
71 2,592 2,575 2,632
72 2,732 2,683 2,805
73 2,856 2,774 2,960
74 2,956 2,843 3,091
75 3,031 2,886 3,197
76 3,082 2,899 3,279
77 3,111 2,880 3,339
78 3,109 2,826 3,373
79 3,064 2,735 3,368
80 2,971 2,604 3,310
81 2,826 2,433 3,188
82 2,630 2,229 3,000
83 2,393 2,000 2,755
84 2,130 1,757 2,474
85 1,857 1,511 2,175
86 1,587 1,271 1,876
87 1,328 1,043 1,588
88 1,083 831 1,313
89 857 639 1,055
90 652 471 817
91 476 331 606
92 331 221.4 430
93 219.9 141 290.9
94 139.8 85.8 188.4
95 85.4 49.9 117.2
96 50.3 27.9 70.3
97 28.8 15 40.6
98 15.9 7.74 22.7
99 8.54 3.86 12.2
100 0 0 0

Note that the graph above does not represent rates per 100,000 population, as this would be skewed by age distribution and reveal more about Burkina Faso's demographics than the death rate. It also does not represent rates per 100,000 people in an age group, as this would be just the probability of death.

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