Lower middle income - Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population) in Lower middle income was 0.669 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.961 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.669 in 2019.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of female deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 female population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 0.961
2001 0.943
2002 0.942
2003 0.883
2004 0.888
2005 0.823
2006 0.874
2007 0.870
2008 0.899
2009 0.815
2010 0.823
2011 0.789
2012 0.744
2013 0.741
2014 0.704
2015 0.683
2016 0.697
2017 0.688
2018 0.681
2019 0.669

Development Relevance: Mortality rates due to unintentional poisoning remains relatively high in low income countries. This indicator implicates inadequate management of hazardous chemicals and pollution, and of the effectiveness of a country’s health system.

Limitations and Exceptions: Some countries do not have death registration data or sample registration systems. The estimates on this indicator need to be completed with other type of information for these countries.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Mortality