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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Uganda was 224.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 515.25 in 1997 and a minimum value of 224.95 in 2020.

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 377.32
1961 371.45
1962 365.57
1963 360.48
1964 355.39
1965 350.29
1966 345.20
1967 340.11
1968 338.16
1969 336.20
1970 334.24
1971 332.29
1972 330.33
1973 329.97
1974 329.61
1975 329.26
1976 328.90
1977 328.54
1978 329.40
1979 330.27
1980 331.13
1981 331.99
1982 332.85
1983 342.09
1984 351.32
1985 360.55
1986 369.79
1987 379.02
1988 397.31
1989 415.60
1990 433.88
1991 452.17
1992 470.46
1993 479.41
1994 488.37
1995 497.33
1996 506.29
1997 515.25
1998 503.37
1999 491.50
2000 479.63
2001 467.76
2002 455.89
2003 438.34
2004 420.80
2005 403.25
2006 385.71
2007 368.16
2008 351.35
2009 334.53
2010 317.72
2011 300.91
2012 284.09
2013 280.01
2014 275.93
2015 271.84
2016 267.76
2017 263.68
2018 233.27
2019 229.11
2020 224.95

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