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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Brazil was 89.17 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 289.26 in 1960 and a minimum value of 89.17 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 289.26
1961 281.87
1962 274.49
1963 266.78
1964 259.06
1965 251.35
1966 243.64
1967 235.92
1968 229.23
1969 222.54
1970 215.85
1971 209.16
1972 202.47
1973 200.61
1974 198.76
1975 196.90
1976 195.04
1977 193.18
1978 190.91
1979 188.64
1980 186.37
1981 184.10
1982 181.84
1983 179.14
1984 176.45
1985 173.76
1986 171.07
1987 168.38
1988 165.19
1989 162.01
1990 158.83
1991 155.65
1992 152.47
1993 149.22
1994 145.98
1995 142.73
1996 139.49
1997 136.25
1998 132.65
1999 129.06
2000 125.46
2001 121.86
2002 118.27
2003 115.96
2004 113.64
2005 111.33
2006 109.01
2007 106.70
2008 105.21
2009 103.73
2010 102.25
2011 100.77
2012 99.29
2013 97.89
2014 96.50
2015 95.10
2016 93.71
2017 92.31
2018 91.42
2019 90.30
2020 89.17

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