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

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: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Lesotho 408.47 2020
2 Central African Republic 364.57 2020
3 Sierra Leone 345.44 2020
4 Chad 330.02 2020
5 Zimbabwe 328.62 2020
6 Nigeria 318.01 2020
7 Côte d'Ivoire 316.87 2020
8 Eswatini 299.05 2020
9 Guinea-Bissau 292.86 2020
10 Equatorial Guinea 286.51 2020
11 Cameroon 273.46 2020
12 Somalia 263.83 2020
13 Mozambique 257.39 2020
14 Burundi 244.69 2020
15 South Africa 240.99 2020
16 Namibia 238.18 2020
17 Mali 236.88 2020
18 Togo 236.55 2020
19 Congo 234.08 2020
20 Guinea 225.48 2020
21 Uganda 224.95 2020
22 Dem. Rep. Congo 219.13 2020
23 Burkina Faso 218.96 2020
24 The Gambia 216.33 2020
25 Niger 214.74 2020
26 Zambia 214.31 2020
27 Angola 213.35 2020
28 Ghana 207.81 2020
29 Benin 205.07 2020
30 Malawi 201.59 2020
31 Liberia 200.96 2020
32 Eritrea 194.00 2020
33 Haiti 191.77 2020
34 Comoros 189.78 2020
35 Kenya 188.33 2020
36 Bhutan 187.66 2020
37 Tanzania 186.27 2020
38 Afghanistan 185.15 2020
39 Sudan 182.48 2020
40 Papua New Guinea 182.41 2020
41 Greenland 179.57 2001
42 Guyana 179.53 2020
43 Gabon 177.78 2020
44 Ethiopia 177.39 2020
45 Madagascar 174.04 2020
46 Yemen 173.28 2020
47 Djibouti 172.49 2020
48 Mauritania 172.45 2020
49 Fiji 170.47 2020
50 Botswana 158.61 2020
51 Rwanda 155.05 2020
52 Lao PDR 149.95 2020
53 Kiribati 149.30 2020
54 St. Kitts and Nevis 148.00 2000
55 Myanmar 145.91 2020
56 India 142.94 2020
57 Senegal 139.45 2020
58 Pakistan 135.29 2020
59 Bolivia 134.99 2020
60 Philippines 128.89 2020
61 Cambodia 127.99 2020
62 Iraq 126.23 2020
63 Turkmenistan 125.97 2020
64 Nepal 123.09 2020
65 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 122.61 2020
66 Solomon Islands 122.40 2020
67 Indonesia 122.09 2020
68 São Tomé and Principe 121.23 2020
69 Russia 120.34 2014
70 Mongolia 119.57 2020
71 Paraguay 118.75 2020
72 Tonga 117.83 2020
73 Grenada 116.97 2020
74 Suriname 116.09 2020
75 Belize 115.54 2020
76 The Bahamas 114.43 2020
77 Timor-Leste 114.33 2020
78 Honduras 113.10 2020
79 Dominican Republic 112.55 2020
80 Ukraine 111.28 2013
81 Bangladesh 110.51 2020
82 Guatemala 108.19 2020
83 Trinidad and Tobago 106.80 2020
84 Dominica 105.00 2000
85 Egypt 102.62 2020
86 Jamaica 102.21 2020
87 El Salvador 100.49 2020
88 Nicaragua 99.88 2020
89 Vanuatu 99.57 2020
90 Uzbekistan 99.04 2020
91 Libya 96.89 2020
92 Seychelles 96.38 2020
93 Brunei 96.29 2020
94 St. Lucia 95.10 2020
95 Mexico 94.90 2020
96 Venezuela 94.39 2020
97 Moldova 93.66 2020
98 Tajikistan 93.29 2020
99 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 93.02 2020
100 Kazakhstan 92.43 2020
101 Kyrgyz Republic 91.96 2020
102 Mauritius 91.65 2020
103 Barbados 90.42 2020
104 Brazil 89.17 2020
105 Azerbaijan 87.45 2020
106 Jordan 86.97 2020
107 Bulgaria 86.50 2017
108 Ecuador 85.79 2020
109 Latvia 84.50 2019
110 Cabo Verde 83.40 2020
111 Peru 82.33 2020
112 Malaysia 82.19 2020
113 Antigua and Barbuda 81.03 2020
114 Belarus 79.84 2018
115 United States 79.67 2019
116 Samoa 78.69 2020
117 Algeria 78.41 2020
118 Hungary 78.36 2020
119 Argentina 77.88 2020
120 Colombia 76.15 2020
121 Thailand 76.15 2020
122 Georgia 75.50 2020
123 Vietnam 75.42 2020
124 Panama 75.11 2020
125 Uruguay 74.64 2020
126 Saudi Arabia 73.83 2020
127 Lithuania 73.28 2019
128 Serbia 72.83 2020
129 Cuba 72.76 2020
130 Romania 71.70 2020
131 Syrian Arab Republic 66.48 2020
132 Tunisia 65.22 2020
133 Armenia 64.22 2020
134 Montenegro 64.07 2020
135 North Macedonia 61.79 2020
136 Slovak Republic 61.63 2019
137 Puerto Rico 61.53 2020
138 Oman 61.31 2020
139 Turkey 60.14 2020
140 Poland 59.83 2019
141 Morocco 59.72 2020
142 China 58.63 2020
143 Estonia 58.20 2019
144 Bosnia and Herzegovina 58.15 2020
145 Chile 57.98 2020
146 Costa Rica 55.42 2020
147 New Caledonia 54.90 2020
148 Bahrain 54.70 2020
149 United Kingdom 54.58 2018
150 Sri Lanka 54.55 2020
151 New Zealand 52.51 2013
152 Lebanon 52.37 2020
153 Czech Republic 51.42 2019
154 Canada 49.32 2019
155 Albania 48.69 2020
156 Croatia 48.40 2020
157 France 48.35 2018
158 Germany 48.03 2017
159 Belgium 47.95 2020
160 Iran 47.70 2020
161 Netherlands 45.05 2019
162 Portugal 44.22 2020
163 United Arab Emirates 43.60 2020
164 Denmark 43.56 2020
165 Australia 42.80 2018
166 Finland 42.10 2020
167 Ireland 41.59 2017
168 Greece 41.02 2020
169 Austria 40.95 2019
170 Iceland 40.90 2018
171 Kuwait 39.84 2020
172 Israel 39.64 2016
173 Luxembourg 38.90 2019
174 Slovenia 38.48 2019
175 Norway 37.23 2020
176 Spain 36.72 2018
177 Sweden 36.66 2020
178 Italy 36.50 2018
179 Japan 35.55 2019
180 Malta 34.12 2020
181 Singapore 33.96 2020
182 Switzerland 32.50 2020
183 Hong Kong SAR, China 32.15 2020
184 Cyprus 31.96 2020
185 Korea 31.19 2020
186 Qatar 31.12 2020
187 Macao SAR, China 23.68 2020

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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