Where you could be born / Africa / Eastern Africa
Born in Mayotte
About 1 in 11,796 people born in 2023 started life in Mayotte. A boy can expect to live 74 years and a girl 78, up from 42 and 43 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 34 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 255 in every 1,000 births to 11.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 6.9 children on average in 1950. Now it is 4.6.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Mamoudzou, with 54,831 people.
Cities and regions
Every state, province and large city with a page.
Largest regions
Sourced: GeoNames Population of each state, province or region.
People on the move
About 2.1% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Réunion, Wallis and Futuna Islands.
Events in the data
The game draws real events from these records, so a life lived here can meet them.
Now live it.
Born in Mayotte, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Africa
How to read the sources. Every figure is sourced to a named dataset, shown beside it. A figure marked "Extrapolated" is estimated by a model because no survey covers the year. UN figures are for 2023, the latest year of UN estimates; other figures are the latest year their dataset has. Rank 1 is the highest figure among 230 countries and territories. All sources and licences