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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Vietnam was 75.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 199.81 in 1972 and a minimum value of 64.97 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 180.60
1961 174.71
1962 168.82
1963 166.21
1964 163.60
1965 160.99
1966 158.37
1967 155.76
1968 164.57
1969 173.38
1970 182.19
1971 191.00
1972 199.81
1973 184.62
1974 169.43
1975 154.25
1976 139.06
1977 123.88
1978 121.01
1979 118.15
1980 115.28
1981 112.41
1982 109.55
1983 107.46
1984 105.38
1985 103.29
1986 101.20
1987 99.12
1988 97.23
1989 95.34
1990 93.46
1991 91.57
1992 89.68
1993 88.13
1994 86.58
1995 85.03
1996 83.48
1997 81.93
1998 80.71
1999 79.48
2000 78.26
2001 77.04
2002 75.82
2003 74.84
2004 73.86
2005 72.88
2006 71.90
2007 70.92
2008 70.47
2009 70.01
2010 69.55
2011 69.10
2012 68.64
2013 67.90
2014 67.17
2015 66.44
2016 65.70
2017 64.97
2018 76.36
2019 75.89
2020 75.42

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