Life Expectancy in South Africa vs United States (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 South Africa vs the United States: 70.6 years vs 81 at 30, 80.7 vs 85.2 at 65, 88.8 vs 89.7 at 80 — significantly higher than the 66.7 vs 79.8 years calculated at birth.

The chart and table below account for the remaining lifespan and display total life expectancy by age and gender in South Africa and the United States.

Table

Current age, years	Total life expectancy, years
	South Africa			United States
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	66.7	63.1	70.2	79.8	77.4	82.2
1	68.1	64.7	71.5	80.1	77.8	82.6
2	68.4	64.9	71.8	80.2	77.8	82.6
3	68.5	65.1	71.9	80.2	77.8	82.6
4	68.6	65.2	72	80.2	77.9	82.6
5	68.7	65.3	72	80.2	77.9	82.6
6	68.7	65.3	72.1	80.2	77.9	82.6
7	68.8	65.4	72.1	80.2	77.9	82.7
8	68.8	65.4	72.1	80.2	77.9	82.7
9	68.8	65.4	72.1	80.2	77.9	82.7
10	68.8	65.4	72.2	80.2	77.9	82.7
11	68.9	65.5	72.2	80.2	77.9	82.7
12	68.9	65.5	72.2	80.2	77.9	82.7
13	68.9	65.5	72.2	80.3	77.9	82.7
14	68.9	65.6	72.3	80.3	77.9	82.7
15	69	65.6	72.3	80.3	77.9	82.7
16	69	65.7	72.3	80.3	78	82.7
17	69.1	65.7	72.4	80.3	78	82.7
18	69.2	65.8	72.4	80.3	78	82.8
19	69.2	65.9	72.5	80.4	78.1	82.8
20	69.3	66	72.6	80.4	78.1	82.8
21	69.4	66.1	72.6	80.5	78.2	82.8
22	69.5	66.2	72.7	80.5	78.3	82.8
23	69.6	66.3	72.8	80.6	78.3	82.9
24	69.7	66.5	72.9	80.6	78.4	82.9
25	69.9	66.6	73	80.7	78.5	82.9
26	70	66.8	73.1	80.7	78.6	83
27	70.1	66.9	73.2	80.8	78.6	83
28	70.3	67.1	73.3	80.8	78.7	83
29	70.4	67.3	73.5	80.9	78.8	83.1
30	70.6	67.5	73.6	81	78.9	83.1
31	70.8	67.7	73.8	81	79	83.2
32	71	67.9	73.9	81.1	79.1	83.2
33	71.2	68.1	74.1	81.2	79.1	83.2
34	71.4	68.3	74.3	81.2	79.2	83.3
35	71.6	68.5	74.5	81.3	79.3	83.3
36	71.8	68.7	74.6	81.4	79.4	83.4
37	72	68.9	74.8	81.4	79.5	83.4
38	72.2	69.2	75	81.5	79.6	83.5
39	72.4	69.4	75.2	81.6	79.7	83.5
40	72.6	69.7	75.4	81.7	79.8	83.6
41	72.9	69.9	75.6	81.7	79.8	83.6
42	73.1	70.2	75.8	81.8	79.9	83.7
43	73.4	70.4	76.1	81.9	80	83.8
44	73.6	70.7	76.3	82	80.1	83.8
45	73.9	71	76.5	82.1	80.2	83.9
46	74.2	71.3	76.7	82.1	80.3	84
47	74.4	71.6	77	82.2	80.4	84
48	74.7	71.9	77.2	82.3	80.6	84.1
49	75	72.2	77.4	82.4	80.7	84.2
50	75.3	72.6	77.7	82.6	80.8	84.3
51	75.6	72.9	77.9	82.7	80.9	84.4
52	75.9	73.3	78.2	82.8	81.1	84.5
53	76.2	73.6	78.4	82.9	81.2	84.6
54	76.5	74	78.7	83.1	81.4	84.7
55	76.9	74.4	78.9	83.2	81.6	84.8
56	77.2	74.8	79.2	83.4	81.8	85
57	77.5	75.2	79.5	83.6	82	85.1
58	77.9	75.6	79.8	83.7	82.2	85.2
59	78.3	76	80.1	83.9	82.4	85.4
60	78.7	76.5	80.4	84.1	82.6	85.5
61	79	76.9	80.7	84.3	82.9	85.7
62	79.4	77.4	81	84.5	83.1	85.9
63	79.9	77.9	81.4	84.7	83.4	86
64	80.3	78.4	81.7	85	83.6	86.2
65	80.7	78.9	82.1	85.2	83.9	86.4
66	81.2	79.4	82.4	85.4	84.1	86.6
67	81.6	80	82.8	85.7	84.4	86.8
68	82.1	80.5	83.2	85.9	84.7	87
69	82.6	81.1	83.6	86.1	85	87.2
70	83.1	81.7	84.1	86.4	85.3	87.4
71	83.6	82.2	84.5	86.7	85.6	87.6
72	84.1	82.8	84.9	86.9	85.9	87.9
73	84.6	83.4	85.4	87.2	86.2	88.1
74	85.2	84	85.9	87.5	86.6	88.4
75	85.7	84.7	86.4	87.9	86.9	88.6
76	86.3	85.3	86.9	88.2	87.3	88.9
77	86.9	86	87.4	88.5	87.7	89.2
78	87.5	86.7	88	88.9	88.1	89.6
79	88.1	87.4	88.5	89.3	88.5	89.9
80	88.8	88	89.1	89.7	88.9	90.2
81	89.4	88.7	89.7	90.1	89.4	90.6
82	90	89.4	90.3	90.5	89.8	91
83	90.6	90.1	90.9	90.9	90.3	91.4
84	91.3	90.8	91.5	91.4	90.8	91.8
85	91.9	91.5	92.1	91.9	91.3	92.3
86	92.6	92.2	92.7	92.4	91.8	92.7
87	93.3	92.9	93.4	92.9	92.4	93.2
88	94	93.7	94.1	93.5	93	93.8
89	94.7	94.4	94.8	94.1	93.6	94.3
90	95.4	95.2	95.5	94.7	94.3	94.9
91	96.1	96	96.2	95.3	94.9	95.6
92	96.9	96.7	96.9	96	95.6	96.2
93	97.6	97.5	97.7	96.7	96.4	96.9
94	98.4	98.3	98.4	97.4	97.1	97.6
95	99.2	99.1	99.2	98.2	97.9	98.3
96	100	99.9	100	98.9	98.7	99.1
97	100.8	100.7	100.9	99.7	99.5	99.8
98	101.7	101.5	101.7	100.5	100.3	100.6
99	102.5	102.3	102.6	101.4	101.2	101.4
100	103.4	103.1	103.5	102.2	102	102.3

Odds of living to age in South Africa vs United States

The chart below shows the odds of living to all ages starting from birth. Of the newborn cohort, 68.7% in South Africa and 89.2% in the United States are expected to survive till at least 60 years old, 51.6% and 79.5% will live to 70 years or older, 30.2% and 61.1% to 80+ years, and 11.3% and 28.1% 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
	South Africa			United States
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
1	97.8%	97.6%	98.1%	99.5%	99.5%	99.6%
2	97.5%	97.2%	97.8%	99.5%	99.4%	99.5%
3	97.2%	96.9%	97.6%	99.5%	99.4%	99.5%
4	97.1%	96.8%	97.4%	99.5%	99.4%	99.5%
5	97%	96.7%	97.4%	99.4%	99.4%	99.5%
6	96.9%	96.6%	97.3%	99.4%	99.4%	99.5%
7	96.9%	96.5%	97.3%	99.4%	99.4%	99.5%
8	96.8%	96.5%	97.2%	99.4%	99.4%	99.5%
9	96.8%	96.4%	97.2%	99.4%	99.3%	99.5%
10	96.8%	96.4%	97.2%	99.4%	99.3%	99.5%
11	96.7%	96.3%	97.1%	99.4%	99.3%	99.4%
12	96.7%	96.3%	97.1%	99.4%	99.3%	99.4%
13	96.6%	96.2%	97.1%	99.4%	99.3%	99.4%
14	96.6%	96.2%	97%	99.4%	99.3%	99.4%
15	96.5%	96.1%	97%	99.3%	99.3%	99.4%
16	96.4%	96%	96.9%	99.3%	99.2%	99.4%
17	96.3%	95.9%	96.8%	99.3%	99.2%	99.4%
18	96.2%	95.7%	96.7%	99.2%	99.1%	99.3%
19	96.1%	95.6%	96.6%	99.2%	99.1%	99.3%
20	95.9%	95.4%	96.5%	99.1%	99%	99.3%
21	95.7%	95.1%	96.3%	99%	98.8%	99.2%
22	95.5%	94.9%	96.2%	99%	98.7%	99.2%
23	95.3%	94.6%	96%	98.9%	98.6%	99.1%
24	95.1%	94.3%	95.9%	98.8%	98.5%	99.1%
25	94.8%	94%	95.7%	98.7%	98.3%	99%
26	94.5%	93.6%	95.4%	98.6%	98.2%	99%
27	94.2%	93.2%	95.2%	98.5%	98%	98.9%
28	93.9%	92.8%	94.9%	98.4%	97.9%	98.9%
29	93.5%	92.4%	94.6%	98.2%	97.7%	98.8%
30	93.1%	91.9%	94.3%	98.1%	97.6%	98.7%
31	92.7%	91.5%	94%	98%	97.4%	98.7%
32	92.3%	91%	93.6%	97.9%	97.2%	98.6%
33	91.8%	90.4%	93.3%	97.7%	97%	98.5%
34	91.4%	89.9%	92.9%	97.6%	96.9%	98.4%
35	90.9%	89.3%	92.5%	97.5%	96.7%	98.3%
36	90.4%	88.7%	92%	97.3%	96.5%	98.2%
37	89.8%	88.1%	91.6%	97.2%	96.3%	98.1%
38	89.2%	87.4%	91.1%	97%	96.1%	98%
39	88.7%	86.7%	90.6%	96.8%	95.9%	97.9%
40	88.1%	86%	90.1%	96.7%	95.7%	97.7%
41	87.4%	85.3%	89.6%	96.5%	95.4%	97.6%
42	86.7%	84.5%	89%	96.3%	95.2%	97.5%
43	86%	83.7%	88.4%	96.1%	95%	97.3%
44	85.3%	82.9%	87.8%	95.9%	94.7%	97.2%
45	84.6%	82%	87.2%	95.7%	94.5%	97%
46	83.8%	81.1%	86.6%	95.5%	94.2%	96.8%
47	83%	80.1%	85.9%	95.2%	93.9%	96.6%
48	82.1%	79.1%	85.3%	94.9%	93.5%	96.4%
49	81.2%	78%	84.6%	94.6%	93.2%	96.2%
50	80.3%	76.9%	83.9%	94.3%	92.8%	96%
51	79.4%	75.7%	83.1%	94%	92.4%	95.7%
52	78.4%	74.5%	82.4%	93.6%	91.9%	95.4%
53	77.3%	73.2%	81.6%	93.2%	91.4%	95.1%
54	76.2%	71.9%	80.7%	92.7%	90.9%	94.7%
55	75.1%	70.5%	79.9%	92.2%	90.3%	94.3%
56	73.9%	69%	78.9%	91.7%	89.6%	93.9%
57	72.7%	67.5%	78%	91.1%	88.9%	93.5%
58	71.4%	65.9%	76.9%	90.5%	88.2%	93%
59	70%	64.3%	75.9%	89.9%	87.4%	92.5%
60	68.7%	62.6%	74.7%	89.2%	86.6%	92%
61	67.2%	60.9%	73.6%	88.4%	85.7%	91.4%
62	65.7%	59.1%	72.4%	87.6%	84.7%	90.8%
63	64.2%	57.3%	71.1%	86.8%	83.7%	90.1%
64	62.6%	55.4%	69.8%	85.9%	82.6%	89.4%
65	60.9%	53.4%	68.3%	84.9%	81.4%	88.7%
66	59.2%	51.4%	66.8%	84%	80.3%	87.9%
67	57.3%	49.3%	65.3%	82.9%	79%	87.1%
68	55.5%	47.2%	63.6%	81.8%	77.7%	86.2%
69	53.5%	45.1%	61.9%	80.7%	76.4%	85.3%
70	51.6%	42.9%	60%	79.5%	75%	84.2%
71	49.6%	40.8%	58.2%	78.1%	73.5%	83.1%
72	47.5%	38.7%	56.2%	76.7%	71.8%	81.9%
73	45.5%	36.6%	54.2%	75.2%	70.1%	80.6%
74	43.4%	34.4%	52.1%	73.6%	68.3%	79.1%
75	41.2%	32.3%	50%	71.8%	66.3%	77.6%
76	39%	30.1%	47.7%	69.9%	64.3%	75.9%
77	36.8%	28%	45.4%	67.9%	62.1%	74.1%
78	34.6%	25.9%	43%	65.8%	59.8%	72.1%
79	32.3%	23.9%	40.6%	63.5%	57.3%	70%
80	30.2%	22%	38.2%	61.1%	54.7%	67.8%
81	28.1%	20.2%	35.8%	58.5%	52%	65.3%
82	26%	18.5%	33.4%	55.8%	49.1%	62.7%
83	24%	16.8%	31%	52.8%	46.1%	59.8%
84	22.1%	15.2%	28.6%	49.8%	43%	56.8%
85	20.1%	13.7%	26.3%	46.5%	39.7%	53.5%
86	18.2%	12.2%	24%	43.1%	36.4%	50%
87	16.4%	10.8%	21.7%	39.5%	32.9%	46.2%
88	14.6%	9.51%	19.4%	35.8%	29.3%	42.3%
89	12.9%	8.29%	17.3%	31.9%	25.8%	38.2%
90	11.3%	7.18%	15.2%	28.1%	22.3%	34%
91	9.86%	6.16%	13.3%	24.4%	18.9%	29.9%
92	8.49%	5.25%	11.5%	20.7%	15.7%	25.7%
93	7.24%	4.43%	9.84%	17.3%	12.7%	21.8%
94	6.09%	3.7%	8.3%	14.1%	10.1%	18%
95	5.06%	3.06%	6.91%	11.2%	7.77%	14.6%
96	4.15%	2.5%	5.67%	8.73%	5.82%	11.5%
97	3.36%	2.02%	4.59%	6.59%	4.24%	8.86%
98	2.68%	1.62%	3.67%	4.84%	2.99%	6.61%
99	2.11%	1.28%	2.88%	3.44%	2.04%	4.78%
100	1.63%	1%	2.22%	2.37%	1.34%	3.35%

Odds of dying by age chart

Mortality rates vary throughout a lifetime. The annual chance of dying is 2.19% in the birth year in South Africa and 0.47% in the United States, 0.44% vs 0.13% at age 30, 2.08% vs 0.83% at 60, and 6.96% vs 4.23% at 80.

Below is a graph displaying the probabilities of dying in South Africa compared to the United States at any given age.

Table

Age	Probability of dying
	South Africa			United States
	Average	Male	Female	Average	Male	Female
0	2.19%	2.44%	1.93%	0.47%	0.51%	0.42%
1	0.35%	0.38%	0.32%	0.05%	0.05%	0.04%
2	0.22%	0.25%	0.2%	0.02%	0.02%	0.01%
3	0.15%	0.17%	0.12%	0.01%	0.02%	0.01%
4	0.1%	0.11%	0.08%	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%
5	0.07%	0.08%	0.06%	0.01%	0.01%	0.009%
6	0.05%	0.06%	0.04%	0.01%	0.01%	0.009%
7	0.04%	0.05%	0.04%	0.009%	0.01%	0.009%
8	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.009%	0.01%	0.008%
9	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.009%	0.01%	0.008%
10	0.04%	0.05%	0.03%	0.01%	0.01%	0.008%
11	0.04%	0.05%	0.04%	0.01%	0.01%	0.009%
12	0.05%	0.06%	0.04%	0.01%	0.01%	0.01%
13	0.06%	0.07%	0.05%	0.01%	0.02%	0.01%
14	0.07%	0.09%	0.06%	0.02%	0.02%	0.01%
15	0.09%	0.1%	0.07%	0.02%	0.03%	0.02%
16	0.11%	0.12%	0.09%	0.03%	0.04%	0.02%
17	0.12%	0.15%	0.1%	0.04%	0.06%	0.03%
18	0.14%	0.18%	0.11%	0.06%	0.08%	0.03%
19	0.16%	0.2%	0.13%	0.07%	0.1%	0.04%
20	0.19%	0.23%	0.14%	0.08%	0.11%	0.04%
21	0.21%	0.26%	0.15%	0.08%	0.12%	0.04%
22	0.23%	0.29%	0.17%	0.09%	0.13%	0.05%
23	0.25%	0.32%	0.18%	0.09%	0.13%	0.05%
24	0.28%	0.35%	0.2%	0.1%	0.14%	0.05%
25	0.3%	0.38%	0.23%	0.1%	0.15%	0.06%
26	0.33%	0.41%	0.25%	0.11%	0.15%	0.06%
27	0.36%	0.44%	0.28%	0.11%	0.16%	0.06%
28	0.39%	0.47%	0.31%	0.12%	0.16%	0.07%
29	0.41%	0.5%	0.33%	0.12%	0.17%	0.07%
30	0.44%	0.52%	0.36%	0.13%	0.17%	0.08%
31	0.46%	0.55%	0.38%	0.13%	0.18%	0.08%
32	0.49%	0.58%	0.4%	0.14%	0.18%	0.09%
33	0.51%	0.61%	0.42%	0.14%	0.19%	0.09%
34	0.54%	0.64%	0.44%	0.15%	0.19%	0.1%
35	0.57%	0.67%	0.46%	0.15%	0.2%	0.1%
36	0.6%	0.71%	0.49%	0.16%	0.2%	0.11%
37	0.63%	0.74%	0.51%	0.16%	0.21%	0.11%
38	0.66%	0.78%	0.54%	0.17%	0.22%	0.12%
39	0.69%	0.82%	0.57%	0.18%	0.22%	0.13%
40	0.73%	0.86%	0.6%	0.18%	0.23%	0.13%
41	0.76%	0.9%	0.63%	0.19%	0.24%	0.14%
42	0.8%	0.95%	0.65%	0.2%	0.25%	0.15%
43	0.84%	1.01%	0.68%	0.21%	0.26%	0.16%
44	0.88%	1.07%	0.7%	0.23%	0.28%	0.17%
45	0.93%	1.13%	0.73%	0.25%	0.3%	0.19%
46	0.98%	1.2%	0.75%	0.26%	0.32%	0.2%
47	1.03%	1.28%	0.78%	0.28%	0.35%	0.22%
48	1.08%	1.35%	0.8%	0.31%	0.38%	0.24%
49	1.13%	1.44%	0.84%	0.34%	0.41%	0.26%
50	1.19%	1.52%	0.87%	0.37%	0.45%	0.28%
51	1.25%	1.62%	0.91%	0.41%	0.5%	0.31%
52	1.32%	1.72%	0.96%	0.44%	0.54%	0.34%
53	1.4%	1.83%	1.02%	0.48%	0.6%	0.37%
54	1.49%	1.94%	1.09%	0.53%	0.66%	0.4%
55	1.58%	2.07%	1.16%	0.58%	0.72%	0.44%
56	1.68%	2.2%	1.24%	0.63%	0.78%	0.47%
57	1.78%	2.33%	1.32%	0.68%	0.84%	0.51%
58	1.88%	2.47%	1.39%	0.73%	0.91%	0.55%
59	1.98%	2.61%	1.47%	0.78%	0.97%	0.59%
60	2.08%	2.76%	1.55%	0.83%	1.04%	0.62%
61	2.2%	2.93%	1.65%	0.9%	1.13%	0.67%
62	2.34%	3.11%	1.75%	0.96%	1.2%	0.71%
63	2.5%	3.32%	1.88%	1.03%	1.29%	0.77%
64	2.68%	3.55%	2.03%	1.09%	1.38%	0.82%
65	2.88%	3.79%	2.19%	1.16%	1.45%	0.87%
66	3.08%	4.04%	2.37%	1.23%	1.54%	0.94%
67	3.28%	4.28%	2.55%	1.31%	1.63%	1.01%
68	3.48%	4.5%	2.74%	1.41%	1.73%	1.1%
69	3.67%	4.72%	2.92%	1.53%	1.87%	1.21%
70	3.87%	4.95%	3.12%	1.65%	2.01%	1.33%
71	4.09%	5.2%	3.33%	1.82%	2.2%	1.47%
72	4.34%	5.49%	3.57%	1.98%	2.39%	1.61%
73	4.64%	5.83%	3.85%	2.17%	2.61%	1.78%
74	4.98%	6.22%	4.17%	2.38%	2.86%	1.97%
75	5.35%	6.64%	4.53%	2.61%	3.13%	2.16%
76	5.71%	7.05%	4.89%	2.86%	3.42%	2.38%
77	6.06%	7.42%	5.26%	3.14%	3.73%	2.63%
78	6.37%	7.73%	5.61%	3.45%	4.08%	2.91%
79	6.67%	8%	5.94%	3.82%	4.51%	3.25%
80	6.96%	8.26%	6.28%	4.23%	4.98%	3.62%
81	7.3%	8.57%	6.66%	4.72%	5.52%	4.06%
82	7.71%	8.97%	7.1%	5.23%	6.1%	4.53%
83	8.21%	9.46%	7.62%	5.84%	6.79%	5.1%
84	8.78%	10%	8.21%	6.55%	7.59%	5.77%
85	9.43%	10.7%	8.88%	7.36%	8.51%	6.56%
86	10.1%	11.4%	9.6%	8.32%	9.57%	7.48%
87	10.8%	12.1%	10.3%	9.44%	10.8%	8.54%
88	11.5%	12.8%	11.1%	10.7%	12.1%	9.68%
89	12.3%	13.5%	11.8%	11.9%	13.6%	10.9%
90	13%	14.1%	12.6%	13.3%	15.1%	12.3%
91	13.8%	14.8%	13.5%	15%	17%	13.9%
92	14.8%	15.6%	14.5%	16.6%	18.9%	15.4%
93	15.9%	16.5%	15.6%	18.4%	20.9%	17.1%
94	16.9%	17.3%	16.8%	20.3%	22.9%	19%
95	18%	18.2%	17.9%	22.3%	25%	21.1%
96	19%	19.1%	19%	24.4%	27.2%	23.2%
97	20.2%	20%	20.2%	26.6%	29.5%	25.4%
98	21.3%	21%	21.5%	28.8%	31.9%	27.7%
99	22.5%	22%	22.8%	31.1%	34.2%	30%
100	23.6%	22.9%	23.9%	33.3%	36.5%	32.2%

Death rate by age in South Africa compared to the United States

In South Africa, the most common age of death is 77, compared to 89 in the United States. The median age of death is 70.8 in South Africa and 83.9 in the United States — only half of the newborns in both countries are expected to live past these ages.

Table

Age	Death rate
	South Africa			United States
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
0	2,192	2,441	1,934	466	510	421
1	343	375	310	45.6	50.6	40.5
2	218.6	243.8	192.5	17	19.2	14.8
3	141.9	161.3	121.7	14.9	16.9	12.8
4	95.3	110.3	80	12.7	14.2	11.1
5	67.2	79	55.4	10.4	11.4	9.33
6	51.2	60.6	41.7	9.54	10.4	8.68
7	42.2	50.2	34.1	9.37	10.2	8.51
8	37.9	45.2	30.6	9.07	9.94	8.16
9	37	43.9	30	9	10	7.92
10	38.7	45.8	31.6	9.47	10.8	8.1
11	43	50.5	35.3	10.2	11.5	8.68
12	49.7	58.1	41.1	11.5	13	9.85
13	58.9	68.7	49	14.2	16.4	11.8
14	70.7	82.4	58.8	18.3	22.2	14.3
15	85	99.4	70.2	23.9	30.6	16.8
16	101.4	119.6	82.9	31.7	42.5	20.1
17	119.5	142.6	96	43	59.7	25.4
18	138.5	167.7	108.8	55.6	78.6	31.2
19	158	194.2	121.2	66.1	94.7	35.6
20	177.8	221.4	133.1	74.4	107.5	39.1
21	198.1	249	145.6	81.9	118.8	42.6
22	219.2	276.6	159.6	87.7	127	45.8
23	241.4	304	176	92.2	132.8	48.7
24	264.7	331	195.1	96.7	138.7	51.7
25	289.1	358	217.1	101.3	144.4	55.1
26	314	384	241.5	106.5	150.3	59.2
27	339	410	266.7	111.6	156	63.6
28	363	434	291.3	115.9	160.6	67.4
29	386	458	314	120.4	165.3	71.8
30	408	481	335	124.4	168.4	76.7
31	429	504	355	128.5	171.4	81.8
32	450	527	374	133.7	176.4	87.2
33	471	551	392	138.7	182	91.5
34	493	575	410	143.5	187.5	95.7
35	515	600	429	147.7	191.6	100.1
36	538	626	449	152.7	196.2	105.4
37	562	653	470	158.4	201.9	111
38	587	680	492	163.8	207.3	116.3
39	613	708	515	170.3	214.2	122.4
40	639	738	538	176.3	220.2	128.4
41	667	770	560	183.1	226.7	135.5
42	695	804	581	190.6	234.1	143.3
43	724	842	601	201.9	246.6	153.5
44	755	884	619	217.3	264.5	166.3
45	786	928	635	234.5	284.7	180.1
46	818	974	652	252.4	306	194.8
47	850	1,022	668	271.3	328	210.3
48	883	1,071	686	292.9	353	227.9
49	918	1,120	707	319	384	248.7
50	954	1,171	731	348	419	271.3
51	994	1,223	760	381	460	296.9
52	1,037	1,279	795	414	499	322
53	1,085	1,337	835	450	544	349
54	1,137	1,397	881	492	596	379
55	1,190	1,459	929	533	647	412
56	1,242	1,519	978	575	696	445
57	1,292	1,575	1,026	617	748	477
58	1,339	1,629	1,072	658	798	509
59	1,384	1,679	1,116	702	851	542
60	1,431	1,730	1,162	743	902	574
61	1,482	1,782	1,211	793	964	612
62	1,540	1,839	1,269	840	1,020	649
63	1,606	1,901	1,337	892	1,081	691
64	1,679	1,965	1,415	940	1,136	732
65	1,752	2,025	1,500	982	1,181	772
66	1,822	2,074	1,585	1,035	1,235	824
67	1,882	2,108	1,667	1,089	1,287	882
68	1,929	2,124	1,740	1,153	1,348	951
69	1,966	2,128	1,807	1,231	1,425	1,032
70	1,997	2,124	1,871	1,314	1,510	1,118
71	2,028	2,121	1,936	1,421	1,618	1,222
72	2,066	2,123	2,008	1,520	1,715	1,322
73	2,112	2,132	2,089	1,634	1,831	1,438
74	2,161	2,141	2,176	1,754	1,953	1,557
75	2,204	2,144	2,262	1,876	2,076	1,678
76	2,228	2,126	2,335	2,003	2,199	1,808
77	2,228	2,080	2,386	2,132	2,317	1,949
78	2,202	2,006	2,410	2,269	2,439	2,102
79	2,156	1,914	2,411	2,427	2,582	2,274
80	2,102	1,819	2,399	2,587	2,726	2,452
81	2,052	1,732	2,383	2,759	2,873	2,650
82	2,008	1,656	2,371	2,915	2,999	2,841
83	1,972	1,591	2,363	3,084	3,133	3,053
84	1,937	1,530	2,353	3,257	3,263	3,277
85	1,897	1,467	2,335	3,424	3,380	3,508
86	1,845	1,397	2,299	3,583	3,478	3,737
87	1,775	1,315	2,238	3,729	3,550	3,948
88	1,686	1,220	2,150	3,816	3,564	4,096
89	1,585	1,118	2,045	3,817	3,497	4,165
90	1,476	1,014	1,924	3,753	3,367	4,174
91	1,363	912	1,794	3,654	3,205	4,138
92	1,257	818	1,670	3,448	2,960	3,966
93	1,148	729	1,540	3,181	2,660	3,725
94	1,031	642	1,393	2,862	2,310	3,428
95	909	558	1,236	2,509	1,943	3,075
96	789	478	1,077	2,132	1,585	2,672
97	677	406	928	1,754	1,251	2,248
98	572	340	787	1,396	952	1,829
99	475	280.8	655	1,072	697	1,435
100	359	204.6	501	690	348	1,015

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 South Africa and the United States 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
• South Africa vs United States: Side-by-Side Comparison

By topic vs comparisons:

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