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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Portugal was 44.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 122.58 in 1961 and a minimum value of 42.47 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 121.49
1961 122.58
1962 119.67
1963 118.24
1964 118.69
1965 114.65
1966 120.48
1967 117.33
1968 111.19
1969 116.55
1970 104.73
1971 113.35
1972 103.01
1973 105.77
1974 103.50
1975 105.83
1976 107.35
1977 101.35
1978 93.88
1979 92.16
1980 91.55
1981 92.32
1982 88.05
1983 88.22
1984 87.95
1985 85.37
1986 83.68
1987 81.56
1988 79.14
1989 76.69
1990 79.30
1991 79.38
1992 76.40
1993 78.73
1994 71.42
1995 71.69
1996 71.58
1997 72.76
1998 68.80
1999 67.51
2000 65.69
2001 64.70
2002 63.22
2003 62.16
2004 58.26
2005 58.03
2006 52.87
2007 53.45
2008 52.73
2009 52.71
2010 51.00
2011 49.21
2012 46.99
2013 45.64
2014 44.99
2015 42.47
2016 43.92
2017 44.68
2018 43.11
2019 43.79
2020 44.22

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