St. Lucia - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in St. Lucia was 172.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 318.62 in 1960 and a minimum value of 161.07 in 2017.

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 318.62
1961 317.49
1962 316.37
1963 315.76
1964 315.15
1965 314.54
1966 313.93
1967 313.32
1968 306.87
1969 300.42
1970 293.97
1971 287.52
1972 281.07
1973 275.31
1974 269.56
1975 263.81
1976 258.05
1977 252.30
1978 246.57
1979 240.84
1980 235.11
1981 229.38
1982 223.65
1983 220.73
1984 217.81
1985 214.89
1986 211.97
1987 209.05
1988 205.95
1989 202.85
1990 199.74
1991 196.64
1992 193.54
1993 197.09
1994 200.64
1995 204.19
1996 207.74
1997 211.29
1998 208.43
1999 205.58
2000 202.72
2001 199.87
2002 197.02
2003 193.65
2004 190.29
2005 186.92
2006 183.56
2007 180.19
2008 178.32
2009 176.46
2010 174.59
2011 172.72
2012 170.85
2013 168.90
2014 166.94
2015 164.98
2016 163.03
2017 161.07
2018 174.72
2019 173.47
2020 172.22

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