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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in OECD members was 122.04 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 226.47 in 1960 and a minimum value of 110.98 in 2017.

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 226.47
1961 222.81
1962 223.85
1963 223.30
1964 219.49
1965 219.23
1966 218.01
1967 216.49
1968 217.65
1969 218.91
1970 215.61
1971 213.69
1972 212.01
1973 210.23
1974 206.41
1975 204.34
1976 202.27
1977 199.48
1978 197.74
1979 195.19
1980 194.02
1981 190.27
1982 186.16
1983 185.00
1984 182.43
1985 180.62
1986 178.04
1987 175.05
1988 173.14
1989 171.72
1990 169.03
1991 167.90
1992 165.25
1993 163.37
1994 160.74
1995 158.79
1996 153.25
1997 148.22
1998 145.58
1999 143.85
2000 140.75
2001 138.61
2002 136.59
2003 135.15
2004 131.68
2005 130.84
2006 128.83
2007 126.77
2008 124.51
2009 122.38
2010 119.63
2011 117.98
2012 115.51
2013 113.85
2014 112.17
2015 112.20
2016 111.80
2017 110.98
2018 114.15
2019 122.04

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