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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Zambia was 313.32 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 663.36 in 1997 and a minimum value of 313.32 in 2020.

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 424.64
1961 420.18
1962 415.73
1963 412.39
1964 409.05
1965 405.70
1966 402.36
1967 399.02
1968 394.65
1969 390.28
1970 385.91
1971 381.55
1972 377.18
1973 375.60
1974 374.02
1975 372.45
1976 370.87
1977 369.29
1978 378.83
1979 388.38
1980 397.92
1981 407.47
1982 417.01
1983 440.06
1984 463.11
1985 486.16
1986 509.21
1987 532.26
1988 551.45
1989 570.65
1990 589.84
1991 609.04
1992 628.23
1993 635.26
1994 642.28
1995 649.31
1996 656.34
1997 663.36
1998 656.33
1999 649.29
2000 642.25
2001 635.22
2002 628.18
2003 604.03
2004 579.88
2005 555.72
2006 531.57
2007 507.42
2008 478.56
2009 449.70
2010 420.84
2011 391.98
2012 363.12
2013 358.86
2014 354.60
2015 350.33
2016 346.07
2017 341.80
2018 321.14
2019 317.23
2020 313.32

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