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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in India was 142.94 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 502.96 in 1960 and a minimum value of 136.20 in 2017.

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.

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Year Value
1960 502.96
1961 492.27
1962 481.58
1963 467.96
1964 454.33
1965 440.70
1966 427.07
1967 413.44
1968 399.54
1969 385.64
1970 371.73
1971 357.83
1972 343.93
1973 333.47
1974 323.00
1975 312.54
1976 302.08
1977 291.62
1978 286.71
1979 281.79
1980 276.88
1981 271.97
1982 267.05
1983 264.42
1984 261.79
1985 259.15
1986 256.52
1987 253.89
1988 248.32
1989 242.75
1990 237.18
1991 231.61
1992 226.05
1993 221.12
1994 216.20
1995 211.28
1996 206.35
1997 201.43
1998 198.67
1999 195.91
2000 193.15
2001 190.39
2002 187.63
2003 184.42
2004 181.21
2005 178.00
2006 174.79
2007 171.59
2008 167.03
2009 162.48
2010 157.93
2011 153.38
2012 148.83
2013 146.30
2014 143.78
2015 141.25
2016 138.73
2017 136.20
2018 147.16
2019 145.05
2020 142.94

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