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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Jamaica was 102.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 171.53 in 1960 and a minimum value of 98.18 in 2017.

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 171.53
1961 166.82
1962 162.11
1963 159.23
1964 156.34
1965 153.45
1966 150.56
1967 147.68
1968 145.24
1969 142.81
1970 140.37
1971 137.94
1972 135.51
1973 133.24
1974 130.98
1975 128.72
1976 126.45
1977 124.19
1978 123.31
1979 122.44
1980 121.56
1981 120.68
1982 119.80
1983 120.06
1984 120.31
1985 120.57
1986 120.83
1987 121.08
1988 121.98
1989 122.89
1990 123.79
1991 124.69
1992 125.59
1993 125.87
1994 126.15
1995 126.43
1996 126.71
1997 126.99
1998 126.18
1999 125.37
2000 124.56
2001 123.75
2002 122.94
2003 120.41
2004 117.87
2005 115.33
2006 112.79
2007 110.25
2008 108.76
2009 107.27
2010 105.78
2011 104.29
2012 102.80
2013 101.88
2014 100.95
2015 100.03
2016 99.10
2017 98.18
2018 104.39
2019 103.30
2020 102.21

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