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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Iceland was 69.03 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 195.86 in 1963 and a minimum value of 58.85 in 2011.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 153.44
1961 164.81
1962 178.37
1963 195.86
1964 170.93
1965 180.68
1966 180.72
1967 163.93
1968 158.18
1969 170.99
1970 183.45
1971 173.90
1972 170.09
1973 174.18
1974 187.69
1975 186.53
1976 139.85
1977 154.15
1978 134.95
1979 141.84
1980 140.61
1981 134.10
1982 131.84
1983 156.52
1984 129.99
1985 114.47
1986 128.47
1987 121.69
1988 126.04
1989 101.28
1990 116.70
1991 119.29
1992 93.29
1993 91.45
1994 95.71
1995 101.02
1996 95.23
1997 91.99
1998 84.14
1999 92.71
2000 98.72
2001 84.97
2002 82.74
2003 66.85
2004 73.30
2005 68.89
2006 76.41
2007 71.12
2008 63.47
2009 73.24
2010 70.55
2011 58.85
2012 66.89
2013 67.44
2014 68.39
2015 67.53
2016 65.67
2017 75.76
2018 69.03

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