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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Gabon was 234.11 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 486.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 234.11 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 486.38
1961 482.96
1962 479.53
1963 470.19
1964 460.86
1965 451.52
1966 442.19
1967 432.85
1968 424.43
1969 416.02
1970 407.60
1971 399.18
1972 390.76
1973 382.69
1974 374.61
1975 366.54
1976 358.47
1977 350.39
1978 342.18
1979 333.97
1980 325.75
1981 317.54
1982 309.33
1983 302.52
1984 295.72
1985 288.91
1986 282.11
1987 275.30
1988 276.38
1989 277.47
1990 278.55
1991 279.63
1992 280.71
1993 286.80
1994 292.89
1995 298.98
1996 305.08
1997 311.17
1998 315.38
1999 319.58
2000 323.79
2001 328.00
2002 332.20
2003 325.86
2004 319.51
2005 313.17
2006 306.83
2007 300.48
2008 294.79
2009 289.10
2010 283.42
2011 277.73
2012 272.04
2013 267.24
2014 262.43
2015 257.63
2016 252.83
2017 248.03
2018 238.33
2019 236.22
2020 234.11

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