Life Expectancy at Birth in Chad: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

How many years a newborn could expect to live, given the mortality of the time and place, is a fundamental measure of human experience. For Chad, the story across three centuries is recorded in decades of demographic data compiled by MYRIAD from the UN WPP, World Bank, and Gapminder. Every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking the shifting horizons of survival from the 1800s estimates up to the projections stretching toward the 2100s projection.

The historical arc of survival in Chad reveals a slow, steady transformation across generations. In the 1800s estimate, life expectancy sat at 27 years, ticking upward very gradually through the 1810s estimate, 1820s estimate, 1830s estimate, 1840s estimate, 1850s estimate, 1860s estimate, 1870s estimate, 1880s estimate, 1890s estimate, and into the 1900s estimate at 28 years. Progress quickened through the 1910s estimate, 1920s estimate, 1930s estimate, and 1940s estimate, before entering the measured decades of the 1950s at 36 years, the 1960s at 40 years, the 1970s at 44 years, the 1980s at 48 years, the 1990s at 49 years, the 2000s at 50 years, the 2010s at 56 years, and the 2020s at 62 years, where it currently ranks #127 of 157 countries.

For someone born in Chad today, the context of longevity continues to evolve as future projections take shape for the 2030s projection at 63.2 years, the 2040s projection at 64.4 years, the 2050s projection at 65.6 years, the 2060s projection at 66.8 years, the 2070s projection at 68 years, the 2080s projection at 69.2 years, the 2090s projection at 70.4 years, and the 2100s projection at 71.6 years. You can keep exploring related metrics like income per person, child mortality, years of schooling, children per woman, and urban living. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born?