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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Benin was 205.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 463.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 205.07 in 2020.

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 463.38
1961 457.52
1962 451.66
1963 443.17
1964 434.67
1965 426.18
1966 417.68
1967 409.19
1968 399.01
1969 388.84
1970 378.66
1971 368.49
1972 358.32
1973 350.64
1974 342.96
1975 335.28
1976 327.60
1977 319.93
1978 315.61
1979 311.30
1980 306.98
1981 302.67
1982 298.35
1983 290.38
1984 282.41
1985 274.44
1986 266.46
1987 258.49
1988 253.92
1989 249.35
1990 244.77
1991 240.20
1992 235.63
1993 239.82
1994 244.01
1995 248.21
1996 252.40
1997 256.59
1998 256.82
1999 257.05
2000 257.27
2001 257.50
2002 257.73
2003 253.71
2004 249.70
2005 245.68
2006 241.66
2007 237.65
2008 235.64
2009 233.64
2010 231.64
2011 229.64
2012 227.63
2013 224.95
2014 222.27
2015 219.59
2016 216.91
2017 214.23
2018 211.01
2019 208.04
2020 205.07

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