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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Bhutan was 187.66 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 556.94 in 1960 and a minimum value of 187.66 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 556.94
1961 554.50
1962 552.05
1963 546.91
1964 541.77
1965 536.63
1966 531.49
1967 526.35
1968 520.97
1969 515.60
1970 510.23
1971 504.85
1972 499.48
1973 494.72
1974 489.97
1975 485.21
1976 480.45
1977 475.70
1978 468.27
1979 460.84
1980 453.41
1981 445.98
1982 438.55
1983 431.18
1984 423.80
1985 416.42
1986 409.04
1987 401.66
1988 393.41
1989 385.17
1990 376.93
1991 368.68
1992 360.44
1993 352.10
1994 343.75
1995 335.41
1996 327.07
1997 318.73
1998 310.77
1999 302.81
2000 294.85
2001 286.89
2002 278.93
2003 271.31
2004 263.70
2005 256.08
2006 248.46
2007 240.84
2008 237.61
2009 234.38
2010 231.15
2011 227.92
2012 224.69
2013 219.58
2014 214.47
2015 209.35
2016 204.24
2017 199.13
2018 194.72
2019 191.19
2020 187.66

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