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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Portugal was 102.58 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 226.54 in 1966 and a minimum value of 96.10 in 2019.

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 210.41
1961 211.11
1962 211.37
1963 211.19
1964 216.39
1965 213.57
1966 226.54
1967 222.04
1968 210.62
1969 221.76
1970 202.72
1971 217.28
1972 198.77
1973 199.57
1974 202.37
1975 222.00
1976 221.39
1977 204.09
1978 197.67
1979 189.09
1980 193.70
1981 198.65
1982 187.49
1983 190.12
1984 187.80
1985 182.18
1986 180.15
1987 175.42
1988 176.53
1989 168.73
1990 174.69
1991 177.65
1992 176.81
1993 173.95
1994 163.05
1995 167.94
1996 172.32
1997 164.97
1998 162.24
1999 159.12
2000 153.57
2001 151.93
2002 148.98
2003 145.23
2004 137.81
2005 140.27
2006 135.50
2007 129.86
2008 125.80
2009 122.94
2010 121.29
2011 118.47
2012 114.52
2013 112.02
2014 108.97
2015 104.09
2016 103.29
2017 102.44
2018 100.98
2019 96.10
2020 102.58

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