Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

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.

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 El Salvador 262.50 2020
2 Haiti 251.66 2020
3 St. Kitts and Nevis 243.00 2000
4 Belize 210.64 2020
5 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 204.32 2020
6 Guatemala 197.12 2020
7 Nicaragua 195.98 2020
8 Dominican Republic 194.34 2020
9 The Bahamas 191.17 2020
10 Trinidad and Tobago 184.17 2020
11 Dominica 183.00 2000
12 Grenada 178.24 2020
13 Jamaica 173.75 2020
14 St. Lucia 172.22 2020
15 Honduras 163.81 2020
16 Panama 144.76 2020
17 Puerto Rico 141.87 2020
18 Barbados 126.81 2020
19 Antigua and Barbuda 124.57 2020
20 Cuba 111.27 2020
21 Costa Rica 109.42 2020

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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