Where you could be born / Africa / Eastern Africa
Born in Réunion
About 1 in 11,009 people born in 2023 started life in Réunion. A boy can expect to live 81 years and a girl 86, up from 45 and 50 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 36 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 227 in every 1,000 births to 6.4.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 7.0 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.2.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Saint-Denis, with 154,765 people.
People on the move
About 0.3% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Comoros, Martinique, French Guiana.
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 Réunion, 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