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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in North America was 131.82 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 236.16 in 1968 and a minimum value of 126.11 in 2013.

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 229.67
1961 223.47
1962 226.35
1963 229.79
1964 228.58
1965 229.29
1966 232.69
1967 230.97
1968 236.16
1969 234.82
1970 232.24
1971 227.69
1972 227.73
1973 224.68
1974 216.70
1975 209.98
1976 204.09
1977 200.31
1978 196.69
1979 192.69
1980 191.81
1981 187.09
1982 180.08
1983 176.57
1984 174.32
1985 174.43
1986 174.04
1987 172.05
1988 171.62
1989 170.17
1990 167.41
1991 165.84
1992 163.79
1993 165.45
1994 163.89
1995 161.99
1996 153.46
1997 145.34
1998 141.43
1999 140.64
2000 139.56
2001 139.74
2002 139.53
2003 139.12
2004 135.88
2005 137.11
2006 136.08
2007 133.81
2008 132.01
2009 130.12
2010 127.10
2011 127.08
2012 126.32
2013 126.11
2014 126.69
2015 128.87
2016 132.79
2017 133.55
2018 132.00
2019 131.82

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