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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Ireland was 71.30 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 187.24 in 1973 and a minimum value of 71.30 in 2017.

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 173.74
1961 181.02
1962 181.93
1963 177.80
1964 182.65
1965 177.87
1966 179.38
1967 171.27
1968 177.15
1969 179.40
1970 184.11
1971 175.36
1972 184.68
1973 187.24
1974 184.82
1975 177.65
1976 175.34
1977 171.67
1978 182.19
1979 178.89
1980 175.56
1981 169.45
1982 162.93
1983 166.05
1984 157.02
1985 154.83
1986 148.84
1987 145.49
1988 138.81
1989 138.96
1990 133.28
1991 132.96
1992 128.20
1993 129.17
1994 121.69
1995 125.48
1996 123.82
1997 123.07
1998 123.63
1999 121.39
2000 119.26
2001 112.22
2002 113.27
2003 102.20
2004 101.71
2005 96.63
2006 94.66
2007 93.92
2008 90.36
2009 92.99
2010 86.76
2011 86.56
2012 83.67
2013 81.07
2014 78.76
2015 74.33
2016 72.09
2017 71.30

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