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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Malta was 34.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 122.87 in 1960 and a minimum value of 34.12 in 2020.

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 122.87
1961 120.65
1962 118.42
1963 115.61
1964 112.81
1965 110.00
1966 107.20
1967 104.39
1968 102.31
1969 100.23
1970 98.16
1971 96.08
1972 94.00
1973 93.25
1974 92.51
1975 91.76
1976 91.01
1977 90.27
1978 88.71
1979 87.16
1980 85.60
1981 84.05
1982 82.49
1983 79.03
1984 75.56
1985 72.10
1986 68.63
1987 65.17
1988 63.20
1989 61.23
1990 59.27
1991 57.30
1992 55.34
1993 54.03
1994 52.72
1995 51.41
1996 50.10
1997 48.79
1998 48.27
1999 47.75
2000 47.22
2001 46.70
2002 46.17
2003 45.36
2004 44.54
2005 43.72
2006 42.90
2007 42.08
2008 41.35
2009 40.61
2010 39.88
2011 39.15
2012 38.41
2013 37.84
2014 37.26
2015 36.68
2016 36.10
2017 35.53
2018 35.06
2019 34.59
2020 34.12

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