Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 157.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 452.28 in 1960 and a minimum value of 152.92 in 1992.

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 452.28
1961 448.36
1962 444.44
1963 429.34
1964 414.23
1965 399.13
1966 384.03
1967 368.92
1968 355.57
1969 342.21
1970 328.86
1971 315.50
1972 302.15
1973 292.09
1974 282.03
1975 271.97
1976 261.91
1977 251.85
1978 245.69
1979 239.53
1980 233.37
1981 227.21
1982 221.05
1983 216.57
1984 212.08
1985 207.60
1986 203.11
1987 198.63
1988 189.49
1989 180.34
1990 171.20
1991 162.06
1992 152.92
1993 174.69
1994 196.46
1995 218.23
1996 240.00
1997 261.78
1998 251.67
1999 241.56
2000 231.45
2001 221.34
2002 211.23
2003 209.37
2004 207.51
2005 205.64
2006 203.78
2007 201.92
2008 196.71
2009 191.50
2010 186.30
2011 181.09
2012 175.88
2013 173.53
2014 171.17
2015 168.81
2016 166.46
2017 164.10
2018 161.97
2019 159.88
2020 157.78

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