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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Botswana was 245.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 636.76 in 2002 and a minimum value of 245.99 in 2020.

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 398.72
1961 394.41
1962 390.11
1963 386.10
1964 382.09
1965 378.07
1966 374.06
1967 370.05
1968 364.20
1969 358.34
1970 352.49
1971 346.63
1972 340.78
1973 333.72
1974 326.67
1975 319.62
1976 312.57
1977 305.52
1978 300.14
1979 294.75
1980 289.37
1981 283.99
1982 278.60
1983 279.10
1984 279.59
1985 280.09
1986 280.58
1987 281.08
1988 299.80
1989 318.53
1990 337.25
1991 355.97
1992 374.70
1993 416.66
1994 458.63
1995 500.59
1996 542.55
1997 584.52
1998 594.96
1999 605.41
2000 615.86
2001 626.31
2002 636.76
2003 606.85
2004 576.94
2005 547.03
2006 517.12
2007 487.21
2008 465.81
2009 444.42
2010 423.03
2011 401.64
2012 380.25
2013 354.35
2014 328.46
2015 302.56
2016 276.67
2017 250.77
2018 249.38
2019 247.68
2020 245.99

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