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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Iraq was 183.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 455.21 in 1982 and a minimum value of 183.12 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 348.36
1961 334.67
1962 320.98
1963 312.74
1964 304.50
1965 296.25
1966 288.01
1967 279.77
1968 276.06
1969 272.35
1970 268.64
1971 264.93
1972 261.22
1973 260.07
1974 258.93
1975 257.78
1976 256.64
1977 255.49
1978 295.44
1979 335.38
1980 375.32
1981 415.27
1982 455.21
1983 422.22
1984 389.22
1985 356.23
1986 323.24
1987 290.24
1988 278.18
1989 266.12
1990 254.06
1991 242.00
1992 229.94
1993 222.88
1994 215.82
1995 208.75
1996 201.69
1997 194.63
1998 195.76
1999 196.89
2000 198.02
2001 199.16
2002 200.29
2003 208.08
2004 215.87
2005 223.65
2006 231.44
2007 239.23
2008 231.45
2009 223.67
2010 215.89
2011 208.10
2012 200.32
2013 198.89
2014 197.47
2015 196.04
2016 194.61
2017 193.18
2018 185.81
2019 184.47
2020 183.12

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