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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Belgium was 47.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 109.84 in 1960 and a minimum value of 47.06 in 2019.

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 109.84
1961 104.96
1962 109.12
1963 108.22
1964 106.88
1965 108.53
1966 107.57
1967 105.05
1968 106.53
1969 107.03
1970 105.61
1971 103.07
1972 102.41
1973 100.93
1974 99.51
1975 101.29
1976 98.74
1977 96.15
1978 96.15
1979 93.27
1980 90.93
1981 88.33
1982 88.54
1983 88.41
1984 83.77
1985 81.82
1986 82.06
1987 78.65
1988 76.68
1989 76.56
1990 75.09
1991 72.28
1992 73.42
1993 71.67
1994 73.28
1995 71.39
1996 70.66
1997 70.72
1998 70.92
1999 67.49
2000 68.70
2001 67.72
2002 66.91
2003 65.36
2004 62.81
2005 62.16
2006 61.11
2007 63.06
2008 61.63
2009 61.10
2010 59.34
2011 59.46
2012 57.05
2013 57.51
2014 53.26
2015 53.98
2016 51.30
2017 49.35
2018 49.32
2019 47.06
2020 47.95

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