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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Belize was 210.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 262.64 in 1960 and a minimum value of 162.55 in 1987.

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 262.64
1961 255.82
1962 248.99
1963 241.70
1964 234.40
1965 227.11
1966 219.82
1967 212.52
1968 206.91
1969 201.31
1970 195.70
1971 190.10
1972 184.49
1973 183.21
1974 181.93
1975 180.65
1976 179.38
1977 178.10
1978 175.99
1979 173.88
1980 171.77
1981 169.66
1982 167.56
1983 166.56
1984 165.55
1985 164.55
1986 163.55
1987 162.55
1988 170.43
1989 178.31
1990 186.19
1991 194.07
1992 201.94
1993 208.26
1994 214.57
1995 220.89
1996 227.21
1997 233.52
1998 235.97
1999 238.42
2000 240.88
2001 243.33
2002 245.78
2003 241.69
2004 237.60
2005 233.50
2006 229.41
2007 225.32
2008 225.59
2009 225.86
2010 226.13
2011 226.40
2012 226.67
2013 224.56
2014 222.45
2015 220.35
2016 218.24
2017 216.13
2018 213.83
2019 212.24
2020 210.64

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