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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Rwanda was 155.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 614.38 in 1992 and a minimum value of 155.05 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 397.18
1961 393.95
1962 390.71
1963 388.33
1964 385.96
1965 383.58
1966 381.21
1967 378.83
1968 377.79
1969 376.74
1970 375.69
1971 374.65
1972 373.60
1973 371.36
1974 369.13
1975 366.89
1976 364.65
1977 362.42
1978 354.91
1979 347.41
1980 339.91
1981 332.41
1982 324.91
1983 330.24
1984 335.58
1985 340.91
1986 346.24
1987 351.58
1988 404.14
1989 456.70
1990 509.26
1991 561.82
1992 614.38
1993 583.06
1994 551.74
1995 520.41
1996 489.09
1997 457.77
1998 448.69
1999 439.62
2000 430.55
2001 421.47
2002 412.40
2003 382.68
2004 352.96
2005 323.24
2006 293.52
2007 263.80
2008 249.84
2009 235.89
2010 221.93
2011 207.97
2012 194.01
2013 188.16
2014 182.31
2015 176.46
2016 170.61
2017 164.76
2018 161.59
2019 158.32
2020 155.05

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