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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Costa Rica was 109.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 231.53 in 1960 and a minimum value of 107.14 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 231.53
1961 222.46
1962 213.39
1963 208.70
1964 204.01
1965 199.33
1966 194.64
1967 189.95
1968 187.89
1969 185.83
1970 183.77
1971 181.71
1972 179.65
1973 178.76
1974 177.88
1975 176.99
1976 176.11
1977 175.22
1978 169.66
1979 164.10
1980 158.54
1981 152.98
1982 147.42
1983 144.83
1984 142.25
1985 139.66
1986 137.08
1987 134.49
1988 133.82
1989 133.15
1990 132.48
1991 131.81
1992 131.14
1993 130.54
1994 129.94
1995 129.35
1996 128.75
1997 128.15
1998 127.63
1999 127.11
2000 126.59
2001 126.06
2002 125.54
2003 125.01
2004 124.48
2005 123.94
2006 123.41
2007 122.88
2008 122.07
2009 121.25
2010 120.44
2011 119.63
2012 118.81
2013 116.48
2014 114.14
2015 111.81
2016 109.47
2017 107.14
2018 113.08
2019 111.25
2020 109.42

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