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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Nigeria was 318.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 453.78 in 1960 and a minimum value of 318.01 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 453.78
1961 448.54
1962 443.31
1963 439.26
1964 435.21
1965 431.16
1966 427.11
1967 423.07
1968 418.61
1969 414.14
1970 409.68
1971 405.22
1972 400.76
1973 395.96
1974 391.16
1975 386.36
1976 381.56
1977 376.76
1978 373.17
1979 369.58
1980 365.99
1981 362.41
1982 358.82
1983 358.98
1984 359.14
1985 359.30
1986 359.46
1987 359.62
1988 359.76
1989 359.90
1990 360.04
1991 360.18
1992 360.32
1993 363.80
1994 367.28
1995 370.75
1996 374.23
1997 377.71
1998 380.91
1999 384.12
2000 387.33
2001 390.53
2002 393.74
2003 389.44
2004 385.14
2005 380.84
2006 376.54
2007 372.24
2008 368.10
2009 363.96
2010 359.82
2011 355.68
2012 351.54
2013 346.91
2014 342.29
2015 337.66
2016 333.03
2017 328.41
2018 324.96
2019 321.48
2020 318.01

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