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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in IBRD only was 98.84 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 340.83 in 1960 and a minimum value of 98.48 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 340.83
1961 336.03
1962 331.59
1963 319.15
1964 306.49
1965 294.57
1966 282.48
1967 270.53
1968 260.78
1969 251.47
1970 241.73
1971 231.78
1972 221.96
1973 215.78
1974 209.79
1975 204.08
1976 198.06
1977 191.91
1978 188.87
1979 185.73
1980 182.55
1981 178.88
1982 175.17
1983 172.48
1984 170.00
1985 166.88
1986 163.05
1987 160.29
1988 157.97
1989 155.90
1990 153.83
1991 151.85
1992 150.16
1993 149.52
1994 148.31
1995 145.96
1996 143.02
1997 140.34
1998 138.61
1999 137.78
2000 136.64
2001 135.37
2002 134.13
2003 132.32
2004 130.19
2005 128.29
2006 125.66
2007 123.41
2008 120.53
2009 117.28
2010 114.29
2011 111.19
2012 108.16
2013 106.26
2014 104.45
2015 102.07
2016 100.27
2017 98.48
2018 100.60
2019 99.58
2020 98.84

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