Jamaica - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Jamaica was 173.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 215.76 in 1997 and a minimum value of 161.89 in 2017.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) University of California, Berkeley, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The Human Mortality Database.

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Year Value
1960 214.06
1961 209.88
1962 205.71
1963 202.62
1964 199.53
1965 196.44
1966 193.36
1967 190.27
1968 187.66
1969 185.05
1970 182.43
1971 179.82
1972 177.21
1973 175.23
1974 173.26
1975 171.28
1976 169.30
1977 167.32
1978 167.19
1979 167.07
1980 166.94
1981 166.81
1982 166.68
1983 169.62
1984 172.55
1985 175.49
1986 178.43
1987 181.36
1988 186.05
1989 190.73
1990 195.42
1991 200.11
1992 204.79
1993 206.99
1994 209.18
1995 211.37
1996 213.57
1997 215.76
1998 214.60
1999 213.43
2000 212.27
2001 211.11
2002 209.94
2003 204.52
2004 199.11
2005 193.69
2006 188.28
2007 182.86
2008 179.95
2009 177.04
2010 174.13
2011 171.22
2012 168.32
2013 167.03
2014 165.75
2015 164.46
2016 163.18
2017 161.89
2018 175.46
2019 174.60
2020 173.75

Development Relevance: Mortality rates for different age groups (infants, children, and adults) and overall mortality indicators (life expectancy at birth or survival to a given age) are important indicators of health status in a country. Because data on the incidence and prevalence of diseases are frequently unavailable, mortality rates are often used to identify vulnerable populations. And they are among the indicators most frequently used to compare socioeconomic development across countries.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data from United Nations Population Division's World Populaton Prospects are originally 5-year period data and the presented are linearly interpolated by the World Bank for annual series. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The main sources of mortality data are vital registration systems and direct or indirect estimates based on sample surveys or censuses. A "complete" vital registration system - covering at least 90 percent of vital events in the population - is the best source of age-specific mortality data. Where reliable age-specific mortality data are available, life tables can be constructed from age-specific mortality data, and adult mortality rates can be calculated from life tables.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality