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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Iceland was 40.90 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 112.38 in 1972 and a minimum value of 32.50 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 105.19
1961 95.82
1962 99.15
1963 85.99
1964 92.66
1965 99.60
1966 104.06
1967 84.87
1968 104.12
1969 103.43
1970 73.03
1971 104.82
1972 112.38
1973 85.48
1974 101.02
1975 79.86
1976 69.57
1977 81.16
1978 80.20
1979 85.55
1980 71.12
1981 58.07
1982 79.98
1983 64.69
1984 61.83
1985 56.73
1986 67.60
1987 73.03
1988 70.57
1989 64.12
1990 78.00
1991 67.90
1992 60.38
1993 64.04
1994 68.48
1995 71.74
1996 58.11
1997 63.99
1998 55.60
1999 58.70
2000 59.12
2001 54.19
2002 54.31
2003 50.72
2004 50.67
2005 48.85
2006 53.08
2007 45.54
2008 39.74
2009 39.95
2010 36.33
2011 42.30
2012 34.35
2013 38.88
2014 42.09
2015 43.19
2016 38.18
2017 32.50
2018 40.90

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