Caribbean small states - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Caribbean small states was 113.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 201.43 in 1960 and a minimum value of 112.75 in 2017.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, female, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old female 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 201.43
1961 197.14
1962 192.84
1963 190.24
1964 187.63
1965 185.03
1966 182.51
1967 180.04
1968 177.70
1969 175.31
1970 172.86
1971 170.32
1972 167.68
1973 165.45
1974 163.18
1975 160.90
1976 158.62
1977 156.38
1978 154.93
1979 153.49
1980 152.04
1981 150.55
1982 149.02
1983 148.17
1984 147.32
1985 146.49
1986 145.72
1987 144.96
1988 144.83
1989 144.72
1990 144.63
1991 144.55
1992 144.49
1993 143.99
1994 143.49
1995 142.97
1996 142.45
1997 141.92
1998 140.77
1999 139.60
2000 138.42
2001 137.24
2002 136.04
2003 134.06
2004 132.09
2005 130.14
2006 128.24
2007 126.37
2008 124.91
2009 123.45
2010 121.98
2011 120.49
2012 118.99
2013 117.74
2014 116.49
2015 115.24
2016 113.99
2017 112.75
2018 115.17
2019 114.11
2020 113.04

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