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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Botswana was 158.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 539.22 in 2002 and a minimum value of 158.61 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 333.54
1961 330.00
1962 326.45
1963 322.92
1964 319.39
1965 315.86
1966 312.33
1967 308.80
1968 302.96
1969 297.12
1970 291.28
1971 285.44
1972 279.60
1973 272.49
1974 265.38
1975 258.27
1976 251.15
1977 244.04
1978 238.85
1979 233.66
1980 228.47
1981 223.27
1982 218.08
1983 216.52
1984 214.97
1985 213.41
1986 211.85
1987 210.29
1988 221.63
1989 232.98
1990 244.32
1991 255.66
1992 267.00
1993 305.44
1994 343.87
1995 382.31
1996 420.74
1997 459.18
1998 475.19
1999 491.19
2000 507.20
2001 523.21
2002 539.22
2003 509.39
2004 479.56
2005 449.73
2006 419.90
2007 390.08
2008 360.34
2009 330.61
2010 300.88
2011 271.15
2012 241.42
2013 225.82
2014 210.23
2015 194.63
2016 179.03
2017 163.44
2018 161.96
2019 160.29
2020 158.61

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