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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Belgium was 82.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 209.46 in 1960 and a minimum value of 77.86 in 2019.

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 209.46
1961 200.58
1962 201.87
1963 203.26
1964 200.32
1965 204.26
1966 196.08
1967 197.34
1968 199.36
1969 199.75
1970 194.43
1971 192.80
1972 194.31
1973 190.08
1974 181.95
1975 184.24
1976 182.26
1977 178.42
1978 180.67
1979 175.33
1980 174.66
1981 167.94
1982 166.78
1983 165.44
1984 159.44
1985 157.10
1986 152.39
1987 149.76
1988 144.19
1989 141.13
1990 138.67
1991 138.32
1992 135.54
1993 136.69
1994 136.48
1995 136.97
1996 132.43
1997 131.23
1998 129.02
1999 131.88
2000 130.50
2001 128.04
2002 124.72
2003 122.42
2004 116.54
2005 114.32
2006 110.94
2007 109.28
2008 111.63
2009 107.24
2010 102.43
2011 100.41
2012 99.12
2013 94.41
2014 91.50
2015 89.44
2016 86.25
2017 83.00
2018 80.46
2019 77.86
2020 82.72

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