European Union - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in European Union was 48.34 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 116.05 in 1960 and a minimum value of 48.34 in 2018.

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 116.05
1961 111.83
1962 112.67
1963 111.43
1964 107.52
1965 106.91
1966 105.22
1967 104.27
1968 103.76
1969 105.79
1970 101.77
1971 101.38
1972 99.19
1973 98.11
1974 96.25
1975 95.82
1976 94.90
1977 92.56
1978 91.70
1979 90.37
1980 89.86
1981 87.82
1982 86.18
1983 86.69
1984 84.87
1985 84.39
1986 83.38
1987 82.14
1988 80.81
1989 80.35
1990 79.06
1991 78.69
1992 77.11
1993 76.62
1994 75.53
1995 74.74
1996 72.99
1997 71.56
1998 69.99
1999 69.12
2000 67.93
2001 66.77
2002 65.54
2003 64.77
2004 62.62
2005 61.79
2006 60.35
2007 59.57
2008 58.66
2009 57.80
2010 55.80
2011 55.19
2012 53.68
2013 52.77
2014 51.18
2015 51.11
2016 50.05
2017 49.33
2018 48.34

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