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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in European Union was 99.72 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 195.92 in 1962 and a minimum value of 99.33 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 195.42
1961 192.53
1962 195.92
1963 195.74
1964 190.39
1965 191.57
1966 189.14
1967 191.12
1968 191.14
1969 195.82
1970 190.34
1971 193.26
1972 190.13
1973 189.68
1974 188.66
1975 191.66
1976 192.81
1977 191.73
1978 192.19
1979 191.17
1980 192.60
1981 188.57
1982 186.02
1983 188.05
1984 187.07
1985 186.07
1986 182.75
1987 180.17
1988 178.39
1989 180.18
1990 176.29
1991 177.03
1992 174.54
1993 171.91
1994 170.18
1995 168.23
1996 163.17
1997 158.69
1998 155.18
1999 152.70
2000 148.52
2001 145.39
2002 142.57
2003 140.30
2004 135.93
2005 134.31
2006 131.65
2007 129.33
2008 125.78
2009 122.56
2010 118.87
2011 115.38
2012 112.01
2013 108.48
2014 104.72
2015 104.43
2016 101.47
2017 99.33
2018 99.72

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