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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Libya was 96.89 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 368.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 94.98 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 368.38
1961 353.46
1962 338.54
1963 326.77
1964 315.01
1965 303.24
1966 291.47
1967 279.71
1968 269.56
1969 259.41
1970 249.26
1971 239.10
1972 228.95
1973 221.76
1974 214.56
1975 207.36
1976 200.16
1977 192.96
1978 187.57
1979 182.17
1980 176.77
1981 171.38
1982 165.98
1983 162.59
1984 159.20
1985 155.81
1986 152.41
1987 149.02
1988 145.71
1989 142.40
1990 139.09
1991 135.78
1992 132.47
1993 130.94
1994 129.40
1995 127.87
1996 126.34
1997 124.80
1998 123.26
1999 121.71
2000 120.16
2001 118.61
2002 117.07
2003 113.79
2004 110.52
2005 107.25
2006 103.97
2007 100.70
2008 100.70
2009 100.70
2010 100.70
2011 100.70
2012 100.70
2013 99.55
2014 98.41
2015 97.27
2016 96.13
2017 94.98
2018 99.33
2019 98.11
2020 96.89

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