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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Malaysia was 157.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 286.65 in 1960 and a minimum value of 154.83 in 2017.

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 286.65
1961 280.70
1962 274.75
1963 271.50
1964 268.26
1965 265.01
1966 261.76
1967 258.52
1968 255.44
1969 252.35
1970 249.27
1971 246.19
1972 243.11
1973 240.19
1974 237.27
1975 234.35
1976 231.44
1977 228.52
1978 225.75
1979 222.98
1980 220.21
1981 217.44
1982 214.67
1983 212.06
1984 209.45
1985 206.84
1986 204.23
1987 201.62
1988 199.13
1989 196.65
1990 194.17
1991 191.68
1992 189.20
1993 186.88
1994 184.55
1995 182.23
1996 179.90
1997 177.58
1998 175.39
1999 173.20
2000 171.01
2001 168.82
2002 166.63
2003 167.16
2004 167.68
2005 168.21
2006 168.73
2007 169.26
2008 168.08
2009 166.90
2010 165.72
2011 164.54
2012 163.36
2013 161.65
2014 159.95
2015 158.24
2016 156.53
2017 154.83
2018 160.38
2019 158.88
2020 157.38

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