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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in India was 199.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 480.88 in 1960 and a minimum value of 199.17 in 2020.

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 480.88
1961 470.19
1962 459.51
1963 447.98
1964 436.44
1965 424.91
1966 413.38
1967 401.84
1968 391.26
1969 380.67
1970 370.08
1971 359.50
1972 348.91
1973 342.63
1974 336.36
1975 330.08
1976 323.81
1977 317.53
1978 314.34
1979 311.15
1980 307.96
1981 304.78
1982 301.59
1983 299.78
1984 297.98
1985 296.17
1986 294.37
1987 292.56
1988 288.84
1989 285.11
1990 281.39
1991 277.67
1992 273.94
1993 270.69
1994 267.43
1995 264.17
1996 260.92
1997 257.66
1998 255.14
1999 252.63
2000 250.11
2001 247.60
2002 245.08
2003 242.18
2004 239.28
2005 236.37
2006 233.47
2007 230.57
2008 228.80
2009 227.03
2010 225.26
2011 223.49
2012 221.72
2013 219.36
2014 217.00
2015 214.64
2016 212.28
2017 209.92
2018 203.62
2019 201.40
2020 199.17

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