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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Luxembourg was 38.90 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 128.19 in 1963 and a minimum value of 36.40 in 2015.

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 117.36
1961 114.16
1962 111.86
1963 128.19
1964 117.37
1965 112.55
1966 125.09
1967 115.34
1968 102.89
1969 120.00
1970 124.97
1971 114.05
1972 125.62
1973 113.11
1974 119.02
1975 107.46
1976 107.44
1977 102.05
1978 103.15
1979 93.58
1980 100.47
1981 100.73
1982 101.16
1983 86.04
1984 95.14
1985 93.07
1986 75.05
1987 90.77
1988 77.16
1989 77.61
1990 88.09
1991 78.35
1992 80.48
1993 78.92
1994 72.81
1995 68.78
1996 78.35
1997 73.17
1998 66.76
1999 67.34
2000 72.85
2001 71.58
2002 68.08
2003 52.96
2004 56.45
2005 55.90
2006 63.26
2007 55.54
2008 55.12
2009 54.28
2010 53.96
2011 48.97
2012 47.06
2013 52.43
2014 38.40
2015 36.40
2016 38.87
2017 41.19
2018 41.67
2019 38.90

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