Atlas Country Page: Namibia
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Life Expectancy and mortality

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Life expectancy at birth, female (years) 44 49 53.94 58.94 47.42
Graph Life expectancy at birth, total (years) 42.71 47.71 52.65 57.51 47.15
Graph Life expectancy at birth, male (years) 41.5 46.5 51.44 56.16 46.9
Graph Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) 454.18 405.22 366.35 317.81 542
Graph Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) 548.38 482.23 426.63 372.53 588
Graph Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) 144.6 117.8 89.6 63.8 62.48
Graph Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) 206 155 114 84 112.08

Birth and Death

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Contraceptive prevalence (% of women ages 15-49)          
Graph Fertility rate, total (births per woman) 6 6 5.88 5.39 5
Graph Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 43.76 42.74 40.94 38.7 35.56
Graph Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) 21.48 17.56 14.14 11.88 17.06

Health care spending

1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
Graph Health expenditure per capita, PPP (current international $       242  
Graph Health expenditure, private (% of GDP)       1.5  
Graph Health expenditure, public (% of GDP)       3.67  
Graph Health expenditure, total (% of GDP)       5.2