Where you could be born / Africa / Northern Africa
Born in Western Sahara
About 1 in 14,679 people born in 2023 started life in Western Sahara. A boy can expect to live 70 years and a girl 74, up from 33 and 37 in 1950.
Life and health
Life lasts about 37 years longer than in 1950. Child deaths fell from 331 in every 1,000 births to 28.
GirlsBoys
Years a baby born that year could expect to live.
In every 1,000 births.
Family
Women had 6.0 children on average in 1950. Now it is 2.2.
Average over a lifetime.
Daily life
The largest city is Laayoune, with 196,331 people.
People on the move
About 34% as many people born here live abroad as live here. The most common destinations are Algeria, Mauritania, South Africa.
Now live it.
Born in Western Sahara, to a family drawn from these numbers. Every life replays exactly from its seed.
Elsewhere in Africa
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