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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Afghanistan was 185.15 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 551.12 in 1960 and a minimum value of 185.15 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 551.12
1961 545.51
1962 539.90
1963 534.65
1964 529.39
1965 524.14
1966 518.89
1967 513.63
1968 508.26
1969 502.89
1970 497.51
1971 492.14
1972 486.76
1973 480.74
1974 474.71
1975 468.68
1976 462.66
1977 456.63
1978 449.34
1979 442.05
1980 434.77
1981 427.48
1982 420.19
1983 410.71
1984 401.22
1985 391.74
1986 382.25
1987 372.77
1988 364.51
1989 356.26
1990 348.01
1991 339.75
1992 331.50
1993 326.24
1994 320.99
1995 315.73
1996 310.48
1997 305.22
1998 299.41
1999 293.60
2000 287.79
2001 281.98
2002 276.16
2003 269.54
2004 262.92
2005 256.29
2006 249.67
2007 243.05
2008 238.35
2009 233.66
2010 228.97
2011 224.28
2012 219.59
2013 215.31
2014 211.03
2015 206.75
2016 202.47
2017 198.18
2018 192.53
2019 188.84
2020 185.15

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