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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Australia was 42.80 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 119.57 in 1966 and a minimum value of 42.80 in 2018.

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 115.95
1961 109.19
1962 112.52
1963 115.74
1964 118.41
1965 118.81
1966 119.57
1967 117.19
1968 116.93
1969 112.95
1970 118.69
1971 111.44
1972 109.28
1973 105.59
1974 107.60
1975 100.66
1976 98.80
1977 95.82
1978 93.15
1979 86.59
1980 84.09
1981 81.30
1982 82.14
1983 79.38
1984 77.80
1985 78.65
1986 73.68
1987 73.58
1988 71.99
1989 70.17
1990 66.31
1991 65.32
1992 65.00
1993 61.60
1994 62.04
1995 60.38
1996 60.12
1997 59.61
1998 57.99
1999 55.88
2000 56.11
2001 53.64
2002 53.06
2003 50.71
2004 49.51
2005 47.60
2006 48.24
2007 48.12
2008 46.64
2009 47.91
2010 45.70
2011 46.07
2012 44.40
2013 44.99
2014 44.80
2015 45.20
2016 44.67
2017 43.34
2018 42.80

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