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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Barbados was 90.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 225.23 in 1960 and a minimum value of 72.18 in 2017.

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 225.23
1961 220.62
1962 216.01
1963 211.83
1964 207.64
1965 203.45
1966 199.26
1967 195.08
1968 191.28
1969 187.49
1970 183.69
1971 179.89
1972 176.10
1973 172.66
1974 169.23
1975 165.79
1976 162.36
1977 158.92
1978 155.82
1979 152.72
1980 149.61
1981 146.51
1982 143.40
1983 140.60
1984 137.80
1985 135.00
1986 132.20
1987 129.40
1988 126.87
1989 124.34
1990 121.81
1991 119.29
1992 116.76
1993 114.48
1994 112.21
1995 109.93
1996 107.65
1997 105.37
1998 103.32
1999 101.27
2000 99.22
2001 97.16
2002 95.11
2003 93.26
2004 91.42
2005 89.57
2006 87.72
2007 85.87
2008 84.13
2009 82.38
2010 80.64
2011 78.90
2012 77.15
2013 76.16
2014 75.16
2015 74.17
2016 73.17
2017 72.18
2018 91.94
2019 91.18
2020 90.42

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