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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Mauritania was 172.45 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 384.46 in 1960 and a minimum value of 172.45 in 2020.

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 384.46
1961 375.37
1962 366.28
1963 359.13
1964 351.99
1965 344.85
1966 337.71
1967 330.57
1968 324.64
1969 318.72
1970 312.80
1971 306.88
1972 300.96
1973 294.97
1974 288.99
1975 283.00
1976 277.02
1977 271.03
1978 265.76
1979 260.50
1980 255.23
1981 249.96
1982 244.69
1983 241.54
1984 238.39
1985 235.24
1986 232.09
1987 228.94
1988 226.50
1989 224.06
1990 221.63
1991 219.19
1992 216.76
1993 215.21
1994 213.66
1995 212.10
1996 210.55
1997 209.00
1998 207.60
1999 206.20
2000 204.80
2001 203.40
2002 202.00
2003 200.40
2004 198.80
2005 197.20
2006 195.60
2007 194.00
2008 192.40
2009 190.80
2010 189.20
2011 187.60
2012 186.00
2013 184.36
2014 182.72
2015 181.08
2016 179.44
2017 177.80
2018 176.15
2019 174.30
2020 172.45

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