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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Arab World was 149.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 359.71 in 1960 and a minimum value of 149.72 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 359.71
1961 355.15
1962 350.50
1963 345.66
1964 340.82
1965 336.01
1966 331.24
1967 326.51
1968 321.97
1969 317.41
1970 312.81
1971 308.14
1972 303.43
1973 298.79
1974 294.29
1975 289.93
1976 285.83
1977 281.87
1978 280.70
1979 279.37
1980 277.83
1981 275.88
1982 273.71
1983 266.75
1984 259.79
1985 252.89
1986 246.04
1987 239.24
1988 235.75
1989 232.33
1990 228.71
1991 225.36
1992 223.33
1993 220.12
1994 216.95
1995 212.87
1996 209.74
1997 206.61
1998 203.88
1999 201.17
2000 198.48
2001 195.62
2002 192.77
2003 189.96
2004 187.08
2005 184.10
2006 180.82
2007 177.47
2008 175.32
2009 173.34
2010 171.53
2011 169.80
2012 168.02
2013 165.95
2014 163.98
2015 162.11
2016 160.26
2017 158.51
2018 153.91
2019 151.77
2020 149.72

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