Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 209.51 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 429.39 in 1960 and a minimum value of 209.51 in 2020.

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 429.39
1961 424.57
1962 419.76
1963 415.53
1964 411.30
1965 407.09
1966 402.84
1967 398.61
1968 394.01
1969 389.43
1970 384.87
1971 380.27
1972 375.69
1973 371.31
1974 366.94
1975 362.57
1976 358.18
1977 353.78
1978 350.60
1979 347.38
1980 344.14
1981 340.80
1982 337.47
1983 335.01
1984 332.61
1985 330.29
1986 328.00
1987 325.78
1988 327.78
1989 329.83
1990 331.88
1991 333.75
1992 335.40
1993 337.74
1994 340.21
1995 342.82
1996 345.50
1997 348.28
1998 347.15
1999 346.03
2000 344.91
2001 343.70
2002 342.44
2003 332.83
2004 323.24
2005 313.68
2006 304.14
2007 294.62
2008 285.72
2009 276.80
2010 267.88
2011 258.90
2012 249.90
2013 244.47
2014 239.07
2015 233.69
2016 228.32
2017 222.98
2018 216.37
2019 212.94
2020 209.51

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