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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Guyana was 179.53 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 233.54 in 1960 and a minimum value of 167.34 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 233.54
1961 231.81
1962 230.09
1963 228.47
1964 226.84
1965 225.22
1966 223.60
1967 221.98
1968 220.28
1969 218.58
1970 216.88
1971 215.18
1972 213.48
1973 211.81
1974 210.14
1975 208.47
1976 206.80
1977 205.13
1978 203.66
1979 202.19
1980 200.72
1981 199.25
1982 197.78
1983 195.96
1984 194.14
1985 192.32
1986 190.50
1987 188.68
1988 188.04
1989 187.39
1990 186.74
1991 186.10
1992 185.45
1993 184.41
1994 183.37
1995 182.33
1996 181.29
1997 180.25
1998 179.89
1999 179.53
2000 179.18
2001 178.82
2002 178.46
2003 178.27
2004 178.07
2005 177.87
2006 177.68
2007 177.48
2008 177.12
2009 176.77
2010 176.41
2011 176.05
2012 175.70
2013 174.03
2014 172.35
2015 170.68
2016 169.01
2017 167.34
2018 182.08
2019 180.81
2020 179.53

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