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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Tonga was 117.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 279.83 in 1960 and a minimum value of 98.14 in 2017.

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 279.83
1961 274.00
1962 268.16
1963 262.45
1964 256.73
1965 251.01
1966 245.30
1967 239.58
1968 234.57
1969 229.55
1970 224.54
1971 219.52
1972 214.50
1973 210.43
1974 206.37
1975 202.30
1976 198.23
1977 194.16
1978 190.21
1979 186.26
1980 182.31
1981 178.36
1982 174.41
1983 171.10
1984 167.80
1985 164.49
1986 161.18
1987 157.88
1988 156.57
1989 155.27
1990 153.96
1991 152.66
1992 151.35
1993 149.45
1994 147.54
1995 145.63
1996 143.73
1997 141.82
1998 138.68
1999 135.54
2000 132.40
2001 129.26
2002 126.11
2003 123.62
2004 121.12
2005 118.62
2006 116.12
2007 113.62
2008 111.92
2009 110.22
2010 108.53
2011 106.83
2012 105.13
2013 103.73
2014 102.33
2015 100.94
2016 99.54
2017 98.14
2018 120.54
2019 119.19
2020 117.83

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