Lower middle income - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Lower middle income was 144.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 392.98 in 1960 and a minimum value of 144.13 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 392.98
1961 385.87
1962 378.67
1963 370.04
1964 361.47
1965 353.38
1966 344.94
1967 336.88
1968 329.19
1969 321.67
1970 314.27
1971 306.56
1972 299.04
1973 292.10
1974 285.32
1975 278.51
1976 271.52
1977 264.56
1978 260.03
1979 255.52
1980 250.95
1981 246.37
1982 241.69
1983 239.11
1984 236.76
1985 234.20
1986 231.32
1987 228.91
1988 225.81
1989 222.80
1990 219.80
1991 216.93
1992 214.06
1993 212.28
1994 210.48
1995 208.77
1996 206.62
1997 204.38
1998 202.20
1999 200.40
2000 198.58
2001 196.63
2002 194.79
2003 191.27
2004 187.79
2005 184.32
2006 180.58
2007 177.08
2008 172.88
2009 168.38
2010 164.07
2011 159.81
2012 155.71
2013 153.27
2014 151.54
2015 149.08
2016 146.60
2017 144.13
2018 147.68
2019 145.93
2020 144.19

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