Lesotho vs Niger: Annual death rates at different ages in males

Lesotho

65.04 deaths per 1,000 people

in 2023

Niger

72.07 deaths per 1,000 people

in 2023

Lesotho rank

10th

Niger rank

7th

Annual death rates at different ages in males over time

Niger currently reports 72.07 deaths per 1,000 people against 65.04 deaths per 1,000 people in Lesotho, a difference of 7.03 deaths per 1,000 people.

That makes Niger's figure about 1.1 times Lesotho's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Lesotho ahead.

Lesotho ranks 10th and Niger ranks 7th of 236 countries.

Indicator: Annual death rates at different ages in males
Unit: deaths per 1,000 people
Source: Human Mortality Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 236 places, 18,722 data points, 1751–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The death rate, calculated as the number of deaths divided by the average number of people alive during the interval.