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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Belize was 115.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 222.28 in 1960 and a minimum value of 103.57 in 1987.

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 222.28
1961 215.95
1962 209.62
1963 203.71
1964 197.80
1965 191.89
1966 185.99
1967 180.08
1968 174.46
1969 168.85
1970 163.24
1971 157.63
1972 152.01
1973 147.23
1974 142.46
1975 137.68
1976 132.90
1977 128.12
1978 125.45
1979 122.78
1980 120.12
1981 117.45
1982 114.78
1983 112.54
1984 110.30
1985 108.05
1986 105.81
1987 103.57
1988 109.04
1989 114.51
1990 119.98
1991 125.44
1992 130.91
1993 133.85
1994 136.78
1995 139.72
1996 142.66
1997 145.59
1998 145.92
1999 146.24
2000 146.57
2001 146.89
2002 147.22
2003 145.41
2004 143.61
2005 141.80
2006 140.00
2007 138.19
2008 137.81
2009 137.42
2010 137.04
2011 136.65
2012 136.27
2013 133.73
2014 131.18
2015 128.64
2016 126.10
2017 123.55
2018 117.66
2019 116.60
2020 115.54

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