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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in South Africa was 367.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 575.61 in 2007 and a minimum value of 345.78 in 1992.

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 384.64
1961 380.66
1962 376.68
1963 372.51
1964 368.33
1965 364.16
1966 359.98
1967 355.80
1968 361.77
1969 367.74
1970 373.71
1971 379.68
1972 385.65
1973 388.79
1974 391.93
1975 395.07
1976 398.22
1977 401.36
1978 401.36
1979 401.36
1980 401.36
1981 401.36
1982 401.36
1983 393.69
1984 386.03
1985 378.37
1986 370.71
1987 363.05
1988 359.60
1989 356.14
1990 352.69
1991 349.24
1992 345.78
1993 360.25
1994 374.72
1995 389.20
1996 403.67
1997 418.14
1998 443.24
1999 468.35
2000 493.45
2001 518.56
2002 543.67
2003 550.05
2004 556.44
2005 562.83
2006 569.22
2007 575.61
2008 553.69
2009 531.77
2010 509.85
2011 487.94
2012 466.02
2013 448.60
2014 431.18
2015 413.75
2016 396.33
2017 378.91
2018 376.40
2019 372.14
2020 367.87

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