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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in OECD members was 65.80 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 140.13 in 1960 and a minimum value of 60.59 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 140.13
1961 136.34
1962 136.24
1963 134.78
1964 131.70
1965 130.74
1966 129.09
1967 127.22
1968 127.37
1969 127.21
1970 124.84
1971 122.44
1972 120.61
1973 118.74
1974 115.42
1975 112.90
1976 110.52
1977 107.64
1978 105.81
1979 103.16
1980 101.73
1981 99.30
1982 96.70
1983 95.69
1984 93.75
1985 92.62
1986 90.87
1987 89.40
1988 88.13
1989 86.72
1990 84.44
1991 83.52
1992 81.80
1993 81.25
1994 79.96
1995 79.34
1996 77.31
1997 75.66
1998 74.35
1999 73.64
2000 72.60
2001 71.74
2002 70.74
2003 70.14
2004 68.58
2005 68.05
2006 67.09
2007 66.18
2008 65.47
2009 64.90
2010 63.45
2011 63.58
2012 62.23
2013 61.76
2014 61.31
2015 61.24
2016 61.18
2017 60.59
2018 62.03
2019 65.80

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