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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Samoa was 78.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 403.94 in 1960 and a minimum value of 78.69 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 403.94
1961 396.37
1962 388.79
1963 381.26
1964 373.72
1965 366.19
1966 358.65
1967 351.12
1968 343.66
1969 336.20
1970 328.73
1971 321.27
1972 313.81
1973 306.47
1974 299.13
1975 291.78
1976 284.44
1977 277.10
1978 269.92
1979 262.75
1980 255.57
1981 248.40
1982 241.23
1983 234.29
1984 227.34
1985 220.40
1986 213.46
1987 206.52
1988 199.62
1989 192.73
1990 185.83
1991 178.94
1992 172.04
1993 166.57
1994 161.10
1995 155.63
1996 150.16
1997 144.69
1998 140.92
1999 137.16
2000 133.40
2001 129.64
2002 125.87
2003 122.05
2004 118.23
2005 114.41
2006 110.59
2007 106.77
2008 103.10
2009 99.44
2010 95.78
2011 92.12
2012 88.46
2013 86.60
2014 84.75
2015 82.90
2016 81.05
2017 79.20
2018 80.74
2019 79.71
2020 78.69

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