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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in China was 91.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 499.66 in 1960 and a minimum value of 91.10 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 499.66
1961 497.80
1962 495.94
1963 459.41
1964 422.88
1965 386.35
1966 349.82
1967 313.29
1968 297.06
1969 280.84
1970 264.61
1971 248.39
1972 232.16
1973 221.85
1974 211.53
1975 201.22
1976 190.91
1977 180.60
1978 177.45
1979 174.30
1980 171.16
1981 168.01
1982 164.86
1983 161.68
1984 158.50
1985 155.32
1986 152.14
1987 148.96
1988 149.47
1989 149.98
1990 150.49
1991 151.00
1992 151.51
1993 150.02
1994 148.53
1995 147.05
1996 145.56
1997 144.07
1998 139.88
1999 135.68
2000 131.48
2001 127.28
2002 123.09
2003 121.86
2004 120.64
2005 119.41
2006 118.19
2007 116.96
2008 115.07
2009 113.17
2010 111.28
2011 109.39
2012 107.50
2013 105.02
2014 102.54
2015 100.07
2016 97.59
2017 95.12
2018 93.78
2019 92.44
2020 91.10

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