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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in High income was 107.23 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 217.83 in 1960 and a minimum value of 101.78 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 217.83
1961 214.39
1962 216.07
1963 215.77
1964 211.94
1965 211.91
1966 210.85
1967 209.45
1968 210.74
1969 212.15
1970 208.82
1971 206.72
1972 204.99
1973 203.05
1974 198.77
1975 196.51
1976 194.12
1977 191.14
1978 189.34
1979 186.70
1980 185.52
1981 181.59
1982 177.19
1983 176.13
1984 173.50
1985 171.60
1986 169.01
1987 165.99
1988 164.21
1989 162.87
1990 160.83
1991 159.71
1992 157.11
1993 155.47
1994 153.05
1995 151.24
1996 145.62
1997 140.46
1998 137.80
1999 136.16
2000 132.99
2001 130.89
2002 128.87
2003 127.41
2004 123.79
2005 123.04
2006 120.87
2007 118.54
2008 116.10
2009 113.78
2010 110.79
2011 109.14
2012 106.48
2013 104.71
2014 103.00
2015 103.12
2016 102.88
2017 101.93
2018 101.78
2019 107.23

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