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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Australia was 73.17 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 209.65 in 1964 and a minimum value of 73.17 in 2018.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 200.01
1961 198.80
1962 203.46
1963 202.33
1964 209.65
1965 207.71
1966 206.01
1967 206.32
1968 209.07
1969 206.55
1970 208.41
1971 197.85
1972 194.62
1973 192.44
1974 196.53
1975 189.27
1976 185.18
1977 177.92
1978 174.40
1979 169.63
1980 165.10
1981 160.65
1982 157.02
1983 148.86
1984 145.96
1985 142.21
1986 136.87
1987 136.15
1988 132.62
1989 130.17
1990 123.91
1991 118.76
1992 116.61
1993 112.77
1994 112.33
1995 108.98
1996 107.83
1997 104.41
1998 103.66
1999 101.03
2000 97.97
2001 93.79
2002 90.81
2003 89.05
2004 86.33
2005 85.45
2006 82.95
2007 84.73
2008 81.99
2009 81.77
2010 78.63
2011 78.28
2012 75.68
2013 75.44
2014 76.85
2015 78.26
2016 75.84
2017 74.46
2018 73.17

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