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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Euro area was 43.40 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 112.95 in 1960 and a minimum value of 43.40 in 2018.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 112.95
1961 108.62
1962 110.34
1963 109.67
1964 105.24
1965 104.60
1966 102.95
1967 101.95
1968 101.39
1969 103.58
1970 98.73
1971 97.96
1972 96.15
1973 94.87
1974 92.29
1975 91.60
1976 89.89
1977 86.78
1978 85.15
1979 83.26
1980 81.67
1981 79.66
1982 77.57
1983 78.20
1984 75.38
1985 74.28
1986 73.25
1987 71.63
1988 70.30
1989 69.52
1990 70.64
1991 70.11
1992 68.43
1993 68.54
1994 67.41
1995 66.50
1996 65.12
1997 63.03
1998 61.88
1999 60.94
2000 60.09
2001 59.40
2002 58.59
2003 57.98
2004 55.75
2005 54.86
2006 53.45
2007 52.74
2008 52.26
2009 51.66
2010 50.08
2011 49.77
2012 48.29
2013 47.74
2014 46.20
2015 46.45
2016 45.60
2017 44.96
2018 43.40

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