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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Zimbabwe was 328.62 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 685.03 in 2002 and a minimum value of 221.47 in 1982.

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 306.20
1961 302.67
1962 299.14
1963 295.96
1964 292.78
1965 289.60
1966 286.42
1967 283.24
1968 280.04
1969 276.85
1970 273.65
1971 270.46
1972 267.26
1973 263.31
1974 259.35
1975 255.40
1976 251.44
1977 247.49
1978 242.28
1979 237.08
1980 231.87
1981 226.67
1982 221.47
1983 225.49
1984 229.52
1985 233.54
1986 237.57
1987 241.59
1988 270.26
1989 298.93
1990 327.60
1991 356.28
1992 384.95
1993 425.14
1994 465.33
1995 505.53
1996 545.72
1997 585.91
1998 605.74
1999 625.56
2000 645.38
2001 665.20
2002 685.03
2003 670.67
2004 656.31
2005 641.95
2006 627.60
2007 613.24
2008 570.31
2009 527.38
2010 484.44
2011 441.51
2012 398.58
2013 378.89
2014 359.19
2015 339.49
2016 319.80
2017 300.10
2018 337.70
2019 333.16
2020 328.62

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