Life Expectancy in Ghana vs Nigeria (1950-2026)

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.

The life expectancy from current ages in Ghana vs Nigeria: 72 years vs 67.2 at 30, 79.1 vs 77.2 at 65, 86.1 vs 85.2 at 80 — significantly higher than the 66.1 vs 55 years calculated at birth.

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

Table

Current age, years	Total life expectancy, years
	Ghana			Nigeria
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	66.1	63.7	68.6	55	54.6	55.3
1	68	65.8	70.3	58.9	58.8	58.9
2	68.2	66	70.5	59.4	59.5	59.4
3	68.4	66.1	70.6	60	60	59.9
4	68.5	66.3	70.8	60.5	60.5	60.4
5	68.7	66.5	71	61	61	60.9
6	68.9	66.7	71.1	61.4	61.4	61.4
7	69.1	66.9	71.3	61.9	61.8	61.9
8	69.2	67.1	71.4	62.2	62.1	62.4
9	69.4	67.3	71.5	62.5	62.4	62.7
10	69.5	67.4	71.6	62.8	62.6	63
11	69.6	67.5	71.7	63	62.8	63.3
12	69.7	67.6	71.8	63.2	62.9	63.5
13	69.8	67.7	71.9	63.4	63.1	63.7
14	69.9	67.8	71.9	63.5	63.3	63.8
15	69.9	67.9	72	63.7	63.4	64
16	70	68	72.1	63.9	63.6	64.2
17	70.1	68.1	72.2	64.1	63.8	64.4
18	70.3	68.3	72.3	64.3	63.9	64.6
19	70.4	68.4	72.4	64.5	64.2	64.9
20	70.5	68.6	72.5	64.7	64.4	65.1
21	70.7	68.8	72.6	65	64.6	65.3
22	70.8	69	72.7	65.2	64.9	65.5
23	71	69.1	72.8	65.5	65.2	65.8
24	71.1	69.3	72.9	65.7	65.4	66
25	71.3	69.5	73.1	66	65.7	66.2
26	71.4	69.7	73.2	66.2	65.9	66.5
27	71.6	69.9	73.3	66.5	66.2	66.7
28	71.7	70	73.4	66.7	66.4	67
29	71.9	70.2	73.5	67	66.7	67.2
30	72	70.4	73.7	67.2	66.9	67.5
31	72.2	70.6	73.8	67.5	67.2	67.7
32	72.3	70.7	73.9	67.7	67.4	68
33	72.5	70.9	74	68	67.7	68.2
34	72.6	71.1	74.1	68.2	67.9	68.5
35	72.8	71.2	74.3	68.4	68.1	68.8
36	72.9	71.4	74.4	68.7	68.4	69
37	73.1	71.6	74.5	68.9	68.6	69.3
38	73.2	71.8	74.6	69.2	68.8	69.5
39	73.4	71.9	74.8	69.4	69.1	69.8
40	73.5	72.1	74.9	69.7	69.3	70.1
41	73.7	72.3	75	70	69.6	70.3
42	73.8	72.5	75.2	70.2	69.8	70.6
43	74	72.7	75.3	70.5	70.1	70.9
44	74.2	72.8	75.5	70.7	70.3	71.1
45	74.4	73	75.6	71	70.6	71.4
46	74.5	73.2	75.8	71.3	70.9	71.6
47	74.7	73.4	75.9	71.5	71.1	71.9
48	74.9	73.6	76.1	71.8	71.4	72.1
49	75.1	73.8	76.2	72	71.7	72.4
50	75.3	74	76.4	72.3	71.9	72.7
51	75.5	74.3	76.6	72.6	72.2	72.9
52	75.7	74.5	76.8	72.9	72.5	73.2
53	75.9	74.8	76.9	73.1	72.8	73.4
54	76.1	75	77.1	73.4	73.1	73.7
55	76.3	75.3	77.3	73.7	73.5	74
56	76.6	75.5	77.5	74	73.8	74.3
57	76.8	75.8	77.7	74.4	74.1	74.6
58	77	76.1	77.9	74.7	74.4	74.9
59	77.3	76.3	78.2	75	74.8	75.2
60	77.6	76.6	78.4	75.3	75.1	75.5
61	77.8	76.9	78.6	75.7	75.5	75.9
62	78.1	77.3	78.9	76	75.8	76.2
63	78.4	77.6	79.1	76.4	76.2	76.6
64	78.7	77.9	79.4	76.8	76.6	77
65	79.1	78.3	79.7	77.2	77	77.4
66	79.4	78.7	80	77.6	77.5	77.8
67	79.8	79.1	80.4	78.1	77.9	78.2
68	80.1	79.5	80.7	78.5	78.4	78.6
69	80.5	79.9	81.1	79	78.8	79.1
70	80.9	80.3	81.5	79.4	79.3	79.6
71	81.4	80.8	81.9	79.9	79.8	80.1
72	81.8	81.3	82.3	80.5	80.3	80.6
73	82.3	81.7	82.7	81	80.9	81.1
74	82.8	82.3	83.2	81.6	81.4	81.7
75	83.3	82.8	83.7	82.1	82	82.2
76	83.8	83.3	84.2	82.7	82.6	82.8
77	84.3	83.9	84.7	83.3	83.2	83.4
78	84.9	84.5	85.2	83.9	83.8	84.1
79	85.5	85.1	85.8	84.6	84.5	84.7
80	86.1	85.7	86.4	85.2	85.1	85.4
81	86.7	86.3	87	85.9	85.8	86
82	87.3	87	87.6	86.6	86.5	86.7
83	88	87.7	88.2	87.3	87.2	87.5
84	88.7	88.4	88.9	88.1	87.9	88.2
85	89.4	89.1	89.6	88.8	88.7	88.9
86	90.1	89.8	90.3	89.6	89.4	89.7
87	90.9	90.5	91.1	90.3	90.2	90.5
88	91.6	91.3	91.8	91.1	91	91.3
89	92.4	92	92.6	91.9	91.8	92
90	93.1	92.8	93.3	92.7	92.6	92.9
91	93.9	93.6	94.1	93.6	93.4	93.7
92	94.8	94.5	94.9	94.4	94.3	94.5
93	95.6	95.3	95.7	95.3	95.2	95.4
94	96.4	96.2	96.5	96.2	96	96.3
95	97.3	97.1	97.4	97.1	96.9	97.2
96	98.2	98	98.2	98	97.8	98.1
97	99	98.9	99.1	98.9	98.8	99
98	99.9	99.8	100	99.8	99.7	99.9
99	100.9	100.7	100.9	100.7	100.6	100.8
100	101.8	101.7	101.8	101.6	101.6	101.7

Odds of living to age in Ghana vs Nigeria

The chart below shows the odds of living to all ages starting from birth. Of the newborn cohort, 73.1% in Ghana and 56% in Nigeria are expected to survive till at least 60 years old, 57% and 39.6% will live to 70 years or older, 30% and 17.1% to 80+ years, and 5.67% and 2.24% 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.

Table

Age	Survival probability
	Ghana			Nigeria
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
1	97.1%	96.7%	97.5%	93.3%	92.8%	93.9%
2	96.9%	96.5%	97.3%	92.4%	91.8%	93.1%
3	96.6%	96.2%	97.1%	91.6%	90.9%	92.3%
4	96.4%	96%	96.8%	90.7%	90%	91.4%
5	96.1%	95.7%	96.6%	89.9%	89.3%	90.6%
6	95.8%	95.4%	96.4%	89.2%	88.6%	89.7%
7	95.6%	95%	96.1%	88.5%	88.1%	89%
8	95.3%	94.8%	95.9%	87.9%	87.6%	88.3%
9	95.1%	94.5%	95.7%	87.4%	87.1%	87.7%
10	94.9%	94.3%	95.6%	87%	86.8%	87.2%
11	94.7%	94.1%	95.4%	86.6%	86.4%	86.8%
12	94.6%	93.9%	95.3%	86.3%	86.2%	86.4%
13	94.5%	93.7%	95.2%	86%	85.9%	86.1%
14	94.3%	93.6%	95.1%	85.7%	85.6%	85.8%
15	94.2%	93.4%	95%	85.4%	85.4%	85.5%
16	94%	93.2%	94.8%	85.1%	85.1%	85.2%
17	93.8%	93%	94.7%	84.8%	84.7%	84.8%
18	93.6%	92.7%	94.5%	84.4%	84.4%	84.4%
19	93.4%	92.4%	94.3%	84%	84%	84%
20	93.1%	92.1%	94.1%	83.6%	83.6%	83.6%
21	92.8%	91.8%	93.9%	83.1%	83.1%	83.1%
22	92.6%	91.4%	93.7%	82.7%	82.6%	82.7%
23	92.3%	91.1%	93.5%	82.2%	82.1%	82.3%
24	92%	90.7%	93.3%	81.7%	81.6%	81.8%
25	91.7%	90.3%	93.1%	81.2%	81.1%	81.4%
26	91.4%	90%	92.9%	80.7%	80.5%	80.9%
27	91.1%	89.6%	92.6%	80.2%	80%	80.4%
28	90.8%	89.2%	92.4%	79.7%	79.5%	79.9%
29	90.5%	88.9%	92.1%	79.2%	79%	79.4%
30	90.2%	88.5%	91.9%	78.7%	78.5%	78.9%
31	89.8%	88.1%	91.6%	78.1%	78%	78.3%
32	89.5%	87.7%	91.4%	77.6%	77.5%	77.8%
33	89.2%	87.3%	91.1%	77.1%	76.9%	77.2%
34	88.8%	86.9%	90.8%	76.5%	76.4%	76.6%
35	88.5%	86.5%	90.5%	76%	75.8%	76.1%
36	88.1%	86.1%	90.2%	75.4%	75.3%	75.5%
37	87.8%	85.7%	90%	74.8%	74.7%	74.9%
38	87.4%	85.3%	89.6%	74.2%	74.2%	74.3%
39	87%	84.8%	89.3%	73.6%	73.6%	73.6%
40	86.6%	84.4%	89%	73%	73%	73%
41	86.2%	83.9%	88.6%	72.4%	72.4%	72.3%
42	85.8%	83.4%	88.2%	71.7%	71.7%	71.7%
43	85.3%	82.9%	87.8%	71%	71.1%	71%
44	84.8%	82.4%	87.4%	70.4%	70.4%	70.3%
45	84.4%	81.8%	87%	69.7%	69.7%	69.7%
46	83.9%	81.2%	86.6%	69%	69%	69%
47	83.3%	80.6%	86.1%	68.3%	68.2%	68.3%
48	82.8%	80%	85.7%	67.5%	67.5%	67.6%
49	82.2%	79.4%	85.2%	66.8%	66.7%	66.9%
50	81.6%	78.7%	84.7%	66%	65.8%	66.2%
51	81%	77.9%	84.1%	65.2%	65%	65.4%
52	80.3%	77.1%	83.5%	64.3%	64.1%	64.6%
53	79.5%	76.3%	82.9%	63.4%	63.1%	63.7%
54	78.7%	75.4%	82.2%	62.5%	62.1%	62.9%
55	77.9%	74.4%	81.5%	61.5%	61.1%	62%
56	77%	73.4%	80.8%	60.5%	60%	61%
57	76.1%	72.4%	80%	59.5%	58.9%	60%
58	75.2%	71.4%	79.2%	58.4%	57.8%	59%
59	74.2%	70.3%	78.3%	57.2%	56.6%	57.9%
60	73.1%	69.1%	77.4%	56%	55.3%	56.7%
61	72%	67.8%	76.4%	54.7%	54%	55.5%
62	70.8%	66.4%	75.2%	53.4%	52.6%	54.1%
63	69.4%	65%	74%	51.9%	51.1%	52.8%
64	68%	63.4%	72.7%	50.4%	49.5%	51.3%
65	66.4%	61.7%	71.3%	48.8%	47.9%	49.7%
66	64.7%	59.9%	69.8%	47.1%	46.2%	48%
67	63%	58.1%	68.1%	45.4%	44.4%	46.3%
68	61.1%	56.1%	66.3%	43.5%	42.6%	44.5%
69	59.1%	54%	64.4%	41.6%	40.7%	42.5%
70	57%	51.9%	62.4%	39.6%	38.6%	40.5%
71	54.8%	49.6%	60.2%	37.5%	36.6%	38.4%
72	52.4%	47.2%	57.8%	35.3%	34.4%	36.2%
73	49.9%	44.7%	55.4%	33.1%	32.2%	33.9%
74	47.3%	42.1%	52.7%	30.8%	29.9%	31.6%
75	44.6%	39.4%	50%	28.5%	27.6%	29.3%
76	41.8%	36.7%	47.1%	26.2%	25.3%	27%
77	38.9%	33.9%	44.1%	23.8%	23%	24.6%
78	36%	31.1%	41%	21.5%	20.8%	22.3%
79	33%	28.2%	37.9%	19.3%	18.5%	20%
80	30%	25.4%	34.6%	17.1%	16.4%	17.7%
81	26.9%	22.6%	31.4%	14.9%	14.3%	15.5%
82	24%	19.9%	28.1%	12.9%	12.3%	13.5%
83	21.1%	17.3%	24.9%	11%	10.4%	11.5%
84	18.3%	14.8%	21.8%	9.22%	8.73%	9.7%
85	15.7%	12.6%	18.8%	7.63%	7.19%	8.07%
86	13.2%	10.4%	16.1%	6.22%	5.81%	6.62%
87	11%	8.53%	13.5%	4.98%	4.61%	5.34%
88	8.99%	6.83%	11.1%	3.91%	3.58%	4.23%
89	7.21%	5.34%	9.07%	3%	2.71%	3.28%
90	5.67%	4.07%	7.26%	2.24%	1.99%	2.49%
91	4.36%	3.01%	5.7%	1.63%	1.42%	1.84%
92	3.27%	2.17%	4.37%	1.16%	0.98%	1.33%
93	2.39%	1.51%	3.28%	0.8%	0.66%	0.93%
94	1.7%	1.02%	2.39%	0.54%	0.43%	0.64%
95	1.18%	0.67%	1.69%	0.35%	0.27%	0.42%
96	0.79%	0.43%	1.16%	0.22%	0.17%	0.28%
97	0.52%	0.27%	0.77%	0.14%	0.1%	0.18%
98	0.33%	0.16%	0.5%	0.08%	0.06%	0.11%
99	0.2%	0.09%	0.31%	0.05%	0.03%	0.07%
100	0.12%	0.05%	0.19%	0.03%	0.02%	0.04%

Odds of dying by age chart

Mortality rates vary throughout a lifetime. The annual chance of dying is 2.9% in the birth year in Ghana and 6.69% in Nigeria, 0.36% vs 0.67% at age 30, 1.57% vs 2.29% at 60, and 10% vs 12.5% at 80.

Below is a graph displaying the probabilities of dying in Ghana compared to Nigeria at any given age.

Table

Age	Probability of dying
	Ghana			Nigeria
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	2.9%	3.26%	2.53%	6.69%	7.24%	6.13%
1	0.22%	0.25%	0.2%	0.96%	1.08%	0.84%
2	0.24%	0.27%	0.22%	0.93%	0.99%	0.88%
3	0.26%	0.29%	0.23%	0.91%	0.9%	0.91%
4	0.28%	0.31%	0.24%	0.88%	0.82%	0.93%
5	0.29%	0.33%	0.25%	0.83%	0.74%	0.92%
6	0.28%	0.32%	0.24%	0.76%	0.65%	0.87%
7	0.26%	0.3%	0.22%	0.67%	0.57%	0.78%
8	0.23%	0.27%	0.19%	0.58%	0.49%	0.67%
9	0.2%	0.24%	0.17%	0.49%	0.42%	0.56%
10	0.18%	0.21%	0.14%	0.42%	0.37%	0.47%
11	0.16%	0.19%	0.13%	0.37%	0.33%	0.4%
12	0.15%	0.18%	0.12%	0.34%	0.31%	0.37%
13	0.15%	0.18%	0.12%	0.33%	0.31%	0.35%
14	0.16%	0.19%	0.13%	0.34%	0.32%	0.36%
15	0.17%	0.21%	0.14%	0.36%	0.34%	0.39%
16	0.2%	0.24%	0.16%	0.4%	0.38%	0.42%
17	0.22%	0.27%	0.18%	0.44%	0.42%	0.46%
18	0.25%	0.31%	0.19%	0.48%	0.47%	0.49%
19	0.27%	0.34%	0.2%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%
20	0.29%	0.37%	0.21%	0.54%	0.56%	0.52%
21	0.3%	0.39%	0.22%	0.56%	0.59%	0.53%
22	0.31%	0.4%	0.22%	0.58%	0.62%	0.53%
23	0.32%	0.4%	0.23%	0.59%	0.63%	0.54%
24	0.32%	0.41%	0.24%	0.6%	0.64%	0.56%
25	0.33%	0.41%	0.24%	0.61%	0.64%	0.58%
26	0.33%	0.41%	0.25%	0.62%	0.64%	0.6%
27	0.34%	0.41%	0.26%	0.63%	0.64%	0.63%
28	0.34%	0.41%	0.27%	0.64%	0.64%	0.65%
29	0.35%	0.42%	0.28%	0.66%	0.65%	0.67%
30	0.36%	0.43%	0.29%	0.67%	0.66%	0.69%
31	0.36%	0.44%	0.29%	0.69%	0.67%	0.7%
32	0.37%	0.45%	0.3%	0.7%	0.68%	0.72%
33	0.38%	0.45%	0.3%	0.71%	0.7%	0.73%
34	0.38%	0.46%	0.31%	0.73%	0.71%	0.75%
35	0.39%	0.47%	0.31%	0.75%	0.72%	0.77%
36	0.4%	0.48%	0.33%	0.77%	0.74%	0.8%
37	0.42%	0.5%	0.34%	0.79%	0.76%	0.82%
38	0.44%	0.52%	0.36%	0.82%	0.79%	0.85%
39	0.46%	0.54%	0.38%	0.85%	0.82%	0.87%
40	0.49%	0.57%	0.41%	0.88%	0.85%	0.9%
41	0.51%	0.59%	0.43%	0.9%	0.89%	0.92%
42	0.54%	0.62%	0.45%	0.93%	0.93%	0.93%
43	0.55%	0.64%	0.47%	0.95%	0.96%	0.95%
44	0.57%	0.67%	0.48%	0.98%	0.99%	0.96%
45	0.59%	0.69%	0.49%	1%	1.03%	0.97%
46	0.61%	0.72%	0.51%	1.03%	1.07%	0.99%
47	0.65%	0.76%	0.53%	1.07%	1.11%	1.02%
48	0.69%	0.82%	0.56%	1.11%	1.17%	1.05%
49	0.74%	0.88%	0.6%	1.17%	1.25%	1.1%
50	0.8%	0.96%	0.65%	1.24%	1.33%	1.16%
51	0.87%	1.04%	0.71%	1.32%	1.41%	1.23%
52	0.94%	1.11%	0.77%	1.4%	1.5%	1.3%
53	1%	1.18%	0.82%	1.48%	1.58%	1.37%
54	1.05%	1.25%	0.86%	1.56%	1.66%	1.45%
55	1.1%	1.31%	0.91%	1.64%	1.74%	1.54%
56	1.16%	1.37%	0.96%	1.73%	1.83%	1.63%
57	1.23%	1.45%	1.02%	1.84%	1.94%	1.74%
58	1.32%	1.56%	1.1%	1.97%	2.07%	1.87%
59	1.43%	1.69%	1.19%	2.12%	2.22%	2.01%
60	1.57%	1.85%	1.31%	2.29%	2.4%	2.18%
61	1.73%	2.03%	1.45%	2.49%	2.6%	2.37%
62	1.9%	2.22%	1.61%	2.7%	2.82%	2.58%
63	2.09%	2.43%	1.78%	2.93%	3.05%	2.81%
64	2.29%	2.65%	1.96%	3.18%	3.3%	3.06%
65	2.49%	2.87%	2.15%	3.44%	3.56%	3.33%
66	2.72%	3.11%	2.37%	3.73%	3.84%	3.63%
67	2.97%	3.38%	2.6%	4.06%	4.16%	3.97%
68	3.25%	3.68%	2.87%	4.43%	4.52%	4.34%
69	3.57%	4.02%	3.18%	4.84%	4.93%	4.76%
70	3.93%	4.4%	3.52%	5.3%	5.39%	5.22%
71	4.33%	4.83%	3.9%	5.8%	5.9%	5.71%
72	4.76%	5.3%	4.31%	6.33%	6.45%	6.23%
73	5.23%	5.81%	4.75%	6.9%	7.03%	6.78%
74	5.73%	6.36%	5.24%	7.5%	7.66%	7.37%
75	6.28%	6.96%	5.76%	8.15%	8.33%	8%
76	6.89%	7.62%	6.34%	8.86%	9.06%	8.69%
77	7.58%	8.34%	6.98%	9.65%	9.86%	9.47%
78	8.32%	9.14%	7.7%	10.5%	10.7%	10.3%
79	9.14%	10%	8.5%	11.5%	11.7%	11.3%
80	10%	11%	9.39%	12.5%	12.8%	12.3%
81	11%	12%	10.4%	13.7%	13.9%	13.4%
82	12.1%	13.1%	11.4%	14.8%	15.1%	14.5%
83	13.2%	14.2%	12.5%	16%	16.3%	15.7%
84	14.3%	15.4%	13.6%	17.2%	17.7%	16.8%
85	15.6%	16.8%	14.8%	18.5%	19.1%	18%
86	16.9%	18.3%	16%	19.9%	20.7%	19.3%
87	18.3%	20%	17.3%	21.5%	22.4%	20.8%
88	19.8%	21.8%	18.6%	23.3%	24.3%	22.4%
89	21.4%	23.8%	20%	25.2%	26.4%	24.2%
90	23.1%	25.9%	21.5%	27.2%	28.6%	26.1%
91	24.9%	28.1%	23.2%	29.2%	30.8%	28%
92	26.8%	30.2%	25%	31.1%	32.9%	29.8%
93	28.8%	32.2%	27%	32.9%	34.9%	31.6%
94	30.8%	34.2%	29.2%	34.6%	36.9%	33.2%
95	32.9%	36.1%	31.4%	36.3%	38.7%	34.9%
96	34.9%	38%	33.5%	37.9%	40.5%	36.5%
97	36.9%	40%	35.6%	39.6%	42.4%	38.2%
98	38.8%	42%	37.6%	41.3%	44.2%	39.9%
99	40.7%	44%	39.5%	43%	46%	41.7%
100	42.7%	45.9%	41.7%	44.7%	47.8%	43.4%

Death rate by age in Ghana compared to Nigeria

In Ghana, the most common age of death is 79, compared to 0 in Nigeria. The median age of death is 73 in Ghana and 64.3 in Nigeria — only half of the newborns in both countries are expected to live past these ages.

Table

Age	Death rate
	Ghana			Nigeria
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
0	2,898	3,255	2,529	6,691	7,237	6,132
1	217.9	238.1	197	895	1,000	785
2	235.9	260	210.9	862	907	815
3	254.3	282.7	224.8	832	822	842
4	269.1	302	235.2	795	740	852
5	275.9	312	238.4	744	658	834
6	270.4	308	230.9	676	577	779
7	251.4	289.1	212.2	593	498	691
8	223.6	259.2	186.7	506	427	588
9	193.3	225.5	159.9	425	366	487
10	167.2	196.1	137.3	361	319	406
11	149	175.3	121.8	317	287	349
12	139.7	164.6	113.9	292.3	269.1	316
13	139.6	164.6	113.6	284.9	264.9	306
14	147.8	174.6	120	292.2	272.9	312
15	163.7	194	132.3	312	291.9	332
16	185.6	221.3	148.5	340	320	360
17	210.3	253.3	165.7	371	354	389
18	234.8	286.4	181.2	402	393	412
19	255.4	316	192.6	429	431	427
20	271	340	200	451	466	435
21	281.6	356	204.7	466	494	438
22	288.1	365	208.5	477	512	441
23	292.3	369	213.2	484	520	447
24	295.5	369	219.4	490	522	457
25	298.8	368	227.2	495	518	471
26	303	367	235.9	501	513	487
27	307	367	244.6	507	510	504
28	312	370	252.4	514	509	519
29	318	374	258.7	521	511	531
30	323	380	263.6	529	516	541
31	328	386	267.3	536	523	550
32	332	391	270.4	543	529	558
33	336	396	273.6	551	535	567
34	341	401	278	559	541	577
35	347	407	284.4	568	548	588
36	356	415	293.7	578	557	600
37	368	426	307	591	569	614
38	383	440	323	606	584	628
39	402	458	342	622	603	642
40	422	478	363	639	624	654
41	441	498	382	654	645	663
42	459	517	398	667	664	669
43	473	534	410	677	682	672
44	486	549	419	686	698	674
45	499	567	427	696	715	676
46	515	588	438	709	735	682
47	538	617	456	727	760	694
48	570	655	481	753	792	712
49	610	701	514	784	830	737
50	656	754	555	821	873	768
51	705	808	598	860	917	803
52	751	858	640	899	958	839
53	792	902	678	936	996	876
54	827	939	711	972	1,030	913
55	860	973	742	1,008	1,062	952
56	895	1,009	775	1,047	1,098	995
57	937	1,054	816	1,093	1,141	1,044
58	993	1,112	869	1,147	1,194	1,100
59	1,063	1,187	936	1,211	1,256	1,165
60	1,148	1,275	1,017	1,283	1,328	1,237
61	1,244	1,374	1,109	1,360	1,405	1,316
62	1,346	1,476	1,210	1,440	1,483	1,398
63	1,450	1,578	1,316	1,521	1,560	1,483
64	1,554	1,677	1,425	1,600	1,633	1,569
65	1,656	1,772	1,536	1,679	1,704	1,656
66	1,760	1,865	1,651	1,759	1,775	1,745
67	1,871	1,962	1,774	1,842	1,849	1,837
68	1,988	2,064	1,906	1,928	1,926	1,931
69	2,112	2,171	2,047	2,014	2,006	2,024
70	2,241	2,283	2,195	2,098	2,084	2,113
71	2,370	2,394	2,345	2,174	2,157	2,192
72	2,495	2,499	2,492	2,236	2,218	2,256
73	2,609	2,595	2,632	2,282	2,263	2,303
74	2,711	2,677	2,760	2,310	2,291	2,331
75	2,799	2,744	2,877	2,321	2,301	2,344
76	2,881	2,794	2,983	2,318	2,294	2,344
77	2,948	2,826	3,077	2,300	2,271	2,331
78	2,991	2,838	3,158	2,268	2,232	2,304
79	3,013	2,824	3,219	2,216	2,172	2,258
80	3,009	2,782	3,254	2,140	2,091	2,187
81	2,970	2,707	3,252	2,036	1,984	2,087
82	2,893	2,598	3,207	1,906	1,855	1,956
83	2,776	2,459	3,115	1,753	1,705	1,800
84	2,624	2,294	2,975	1,586	1,542	1,629
85	2,442	2,109	2,792	1,413	1,373	1,452
86	2,236	1,911	2,573	1,240	1,202	1,277
87	2,014	1,704	2,331	1,072	1,034	1,109
88	1,781	1,490	2,075	910	871	948
89	1,544	1,272	1,816	755	715	794
90	1,311	1,055	1,563	610	569	649
91	1,086	846	1,321	477	438	515
92	877	654	1,095	360	324	395
93	689	487	887	262.7	230.7	293.7
94	525	350	698	185.4	158.4	211.6
95	387	243.5	532	127	105	148.2
96	276.4	163.8	390	84.6	67.4	101
97	190.3	106.7	275.6	54.8	41.8	67.1
98	126.3	67.3	187.2	34.5	25.2	43.4
99	80.9	40.9	122.6	21.1	14.6	27.2
100	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

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 Ghana and Nigeria 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.

Life expectancy in other countries

Relevant pages:

• Life expectancy World
• Ghana vs Nigeria: Facts and Figures

By topic vs comparisons:

• Birth rate
• Demographics
• Economy
• Population
• Population density
• Size