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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in World was 172.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 371.84 in 1960 and a minimum value of 167.04 in 2018.

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 371.84
1961 366.68
1962 362.99
1963 351.35
1964 338.76
1965 328.25
1966 317.12
1967 306.10
1968 300.98
1969 296.18
1970 289.28
1971 282.93
1972 276.47
1973 271.73
1974 266.72
1975 262.61
1976 257.89
1977 253.36
1978 251.63
1979 249.90
1980 248.22
1981 245.55
1982 242.63
1983 240.23
1984 238.00
1985 234.40
1986 229.81
1987 227.25
1988 226.38
1989 226.20
1990 224.56
1991 224.15
1992 224.42
1993 225.78
1994 226.01
1995 224.75
1996 221.75
1997 219.00
1998 216.46
1999 215.45
2000 213.91
2001 211.94
2002 210.05
2003 207.88
2004 205.02
2005 202.96
2006 199.49
2007 196.51
2008 193.82
2009 190.43
2010 187.63
2011 184.82
2012 181.91
2013 179.53
2014 176.74
2015 171.98
2016 170.14
2017 168.27
2018 167.04
2019 168.83
2020 172.18

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