Papua New Guinea - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Papua New Guinea was 246.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 599.81 in 1960 and a minimum value of 246.36 in 2020.

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 599.81
1961 596.46
1962 593.12
1963 584.65
1964 576.19
1965 567.73
1966 559.27
1967 550.80
1968 539.30
1969 527.80
1970 516.30
1971 504.79
1972 493.29
1973 479.58
1974 465.88
1975 452.18
1976 438.47
1977 424.77
1978 417.58
1979 410.40
1980 403.21
1981 396.03
1982 388.84
1983 385.87
1984 382.90
1985 379.93
1986 376.96
1987 373.99
1988 369.55
1989 365.10
1990 360.66
1991 356.21
1992 351.77
1993 346.44
1994 341.11
1995 335.78
1996 330.45
1997 325.12
1998 320.00
1999 314.88
2000 309.76
2001 304.63
2002 299.51
2003 294.30
2004 289.09
2005 283.88
2006 278.66
2007 273.45
2008 271.38
2009 269.30
2010 267.22
2011 265.14
2012 263.06
2013 261.33
2014 259.60
2015 257.87
2016 256.14
2017 254.41
2018 251.14
2019 248.75
2020 246.36

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