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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Nigeria was 357.91 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 515.97 in 1960 and a minimum value of 357.91 in 2020.

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 515.97
1961 510.26
1962 504.55
1963 500.15
1964 495.75
1965 491.35
1966 486.96
1967 482.56
1968 477.73
1969 472.90
1970 468.07
1971 463.24
1972 458.41
1973 453.24
1974 448.06
1975 442.89
1976 437.71
1977 432.54
1978 428.65
1979 424.76
1980 420.87
1981 416.99
1982 413.10
1983 413.22
1984 413.35
1985 413.48
1986 413.60
1987 413.73
1988 413.91
1989 414.09
1990 414.27
1991 414.45
1992 414.63
1993 415.58
1994 416.52
1995 417.46
1996 418.40
1997 419.34
1998 421.37
1999 423.39
2000 425.41
2001 427.44
2002 429.46
2003 424.15
2004 418.83
2005 413.52
2006 408.21
2007 402.89
2008 399.44
2009 395.99
2010 392.54
2011 389.09
2012 385.63
2013 382.01
2014 378.39
2015 374.77
2016 371.15
2017 367.53
2018 364.32
2019 361.12
2020 357.91

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