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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Italy was 36.50 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 109.56 in 1960 and a minimum value of 36.50 in 2018.

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 109.56
1961 105.67
1962 108.95
1963 109.04
1964 102.39
1965 102.24
1966 98.10
1967 98.64
1968 99.21
1969 100.23
1970 94.92
1971 92.15
1972 92.18
1973 90.39
1974 86.39
1975 86.25
1976 84.41
1977 80.80
1978 78.45
1979 76.72
1980 76.87
1981 74.21
1982 71.60
1983 71.90
1984 68.71
1985 67.44
1986 67.13
1987 64.99
1988 63.79
1989 62.04
1990 61.13
1991 61.15
1992 59.37
1993 58.71
1994 57.84
1995 57.53
1996 56.59
1997 53.82
1998 53.88
1999 50.98
2000 50.69
2001 49.70
2002 49.13
2003 47.79
2004 45.00
2005 44.23
2006 42.89
2007 42.19
2008 41.70
2009 41.99
2010 40.18
2011 40.48
2012 39.70
2013 38.64
2014 37.51
2015 38.61
2016 37.32
2017 37.79
2018 36.50

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