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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in High income was 59.64 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 130.03 in 1960 and a minimum value of 56.71 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 130.03
1961 126.32
1962 126.63
1963 125.29
1964 122.19
1965 121.33
1966 119.72
1967 117.86
1968 118.20
1969 118.22
1970 116.24
1971 113.92
1972 112.14
1973 110.43
1974 107.15
1975 104.73
1976 102.45
1977 99.71
1978 98.14
1979 95.71
1980 94.71
1981 92.39
1982 90.00
1983 89.23
1984 87.31
1985 86.32
1986 84.66
1987 83.34
1988 82.19
1989 80.84
1990 79.05
1991 78.25
1992 76.59
1993 76.24
1994 75.03
1995 74.59
1996 72.62
1997 70.97
1998 69.71
1999 69.17
2000 68.16
2001 67.43
2002 66.47
2003 65.95
2004 64.31
2005 63.89
2006 62.89
2007 61.98
2008 61.26
2009 60.75
2010 59.21
2011 59.46
2012 58.07
2013 57.62
2014 57.25
2015 57.24
2016 57.33
2017 56.73
2018 56.71
2019 59.64

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