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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in World was 118.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 297.87 in 1960 and a minimum value of 111.23 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 297.87
1961 293.30
1962 289.89
1963 281.14
1964 271.87
1965 263.70
1966 255.18
1967 246.72
1968 240.36
1969 234.13
1970 226.66
1971 219.36
1972 212.30
1973 207.63
1974 202.73
1975 198.16
1976 193.39
1977 188.44
1978 185.68
1979 182.69
1980 179.90
1981 176.65
1982 173.28
1983 171.13
1984 169.01
1985 166.67
1986 163.73
1987 161.57
1988 160.13
1989 158.81
1990 156.08
1991 154.91
1992 153.85
1993 154.04
1994 153.67
1995 152.72
1996 151.02
1997 149.57
1998 148.39
1999 147.93
2000 147.20
2001 146.39
2002 145.55
2003 143.55
2004 141.12
2005 139.04
2006 136.33
2007 133.89
2008 131.05
2009 128.01
2010 125.00
2011 122.19
2012 119.12
2013 117.45
2014 115.98
2015 114.34
2016 112.82
2017 111.23
2018 113.29
2019 114.96
2020 118.63

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