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Mortality in Eswatini, by the numbers

Eswatini sits in Sub-Saharan Africa. A newborn there can expect about 64.2 years of life, 188th of 212 countries with data. Below, every mortality measure the National Death Index tracks for Eswatini, each with its global rank and source year.

Life expectancy
64.2 yrs
188th of 212
Suicide rate
27.2 /100k
3rd highest of 182
Age-standardized death rate
20.0 /1,000
4th highest of 182

17 measures · sources: World Bank Open Data and WHO Global Health Observatory (Global Health Estimates 2021) · latest available year per figure

How Eswatini ranks, measure by measure
MeasureValueWorld rankYear
Life expectancy at birth 64.2 yrs 188 of 212 2024
Age-standardized death rate 20.0 /1,000 4 of 182 2021
Crude death rate 7.7 /1,000 90 of 212 2024
Life expectancy at 60 13.1 yrs 179 of 182 2021
Male mortality penalty 116 /1,000 22 of 212 2024
Life-expectancy gap (F−M) 5.8 yrs 68 of 212 2024
Old-age sex ratio (65+) 65.9 men/100 women 30 of 212 2024
Infant mortality 42.2 /1,000 23 of 192 2024
Maternal mortality 118 /100k 58 of 191 2023
Premature NCD mortality 32.3 % 8 of 182 2021
Suicide rate 27.2 /100k 3 of 182 2021
Road-traffic deaths 33.5 /100k 10 of 187 2019
Adult obesity 19.9 % 51 of 143 2014
Recorded alcohol per adult 6.8 L 63 of 185 2020
Population aged 65+ 4.3 % 157 of 212 2024
Health spending per capita $296 115 of 191 2023
GDP per capita $3,910 149 of 212 2024

Measured against the rest of the world, Eswatini's sharpest departures from the middle of the pack are the 3rd highest suicide rate in the world (27.2 /100k) and the 4th highest age-standardized death rate in the world (20.0 /1,000). Every figure above is the most recent the source reports for Eswatini; the year sits beside each one, and rankings cover only countries with data for that measure.