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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Zambia was 214.31 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 572.81 in 1997 and a minimum value of 214.31 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 367.32
1961 363.39
1962 359.46
1963 356.09
1964 352.73
1965 349.36
1966 346.00
1967 342.63
1968 338.15
1969 333.66
1970 329.18
1971 324.69
1972 320.20
1973 317.80
1974 315.40
1975 313.00
1976 310.60
1977 308.20
1978 313.36
1979 318.53
1980 323.69
1981 328.86
1982 334.02
1983 351.25
1984 368.47
1985 385.69
1986 402.92
1987 420.14
1988 439.48
1989 458.83
1990 478.17
1991 497.52
1992 516.86
1993 528.05
1994 539.24
1995 550.43
1996 561.62
1997 572.81
1998 570.09
1999 567.38
2000 564.67
2001 561.96
2002 559.25
2003 534.98
2004 510.71
2005 486.45
2006 462.18
2007 437.92
2008 406.91
2009 375.90
2010 344.90
2011 313.89
2012 282.88
2013 273.69
2014 264.50
2015 255.31
2016 246.12
2017 236.93
2018 221.57
2019 217.94
2020 214.31

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