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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in South Asia was 190.93 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 454.30 in 1960 and a minimum value of 190.93 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 454.30
1961 444.60
1962 434.84
1963 424.37
1964 413.96
1965 403.63
1966 393.32
1967 383.06
1968 373.92
1969 364.80
1970 355.67
1971 346.56
1972 337.46
1973 331.59
1974 325.72
1975 319.82
1976 313.85
1977 307.85
1978 304.56
1979 301.24
1980 297.90
1981 294.53
1982 291.13
1983 289.06
1984 287.00
1985 284.97
1986 282.96
1987 280.97
1988 277.31
1989 273.69
1990 270.09
1991 266.56
1992 263.05
1993 260.13
1994 257.20
1995 254.25
1996 251.23
1997 248.19
1998 245.40
1999 242.61
2000 239.86
2001 237.13
2002 234.43
2003 231.70
2004 228.97
2005 226.24
2006 223.51
2007 220.78
2008 218.86
2009 216.95
2010 215.04
2011 213.13
2012 211.23
2013 209.01
2014 206.79
2015 204.56
2016 202.32
2017 200.06
2018 195.20
2019 193.06
2020 190.93

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