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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Bulgaria was 86.50 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 114.35 in 1960 and a minimum value of 82.09 in 2013.

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 114.35
1961 111.42
1962 113.22
1963 108.68
1964 102.05
1965 101.50
1966 100.66
1967 100.92
1968 100.27
1969 103.50
1970 100.10
1971 101.46
1972 99.37
1973 95.81
1974 97.32
1975 96.05
1976 96.18
1977 97.29
1978 99.53
1979 99.36
1980 98.92
1981 97.09
1982 98.34
1983 95.45
1984 98.23
1985 98.51
1986 95.57
1987 94.90
1988 97.57
1989 95.63
1990 98.08
1991 96.63
1992 99.09
1993 94.87
1994 98.23
1995 100.07
1996 99.79
1997 106.49
1998 98.50
1999 99.05
2000 98.82
2001 95.11
2002 93.93
2003 91.42
2004 92.27
2005 92.25
2006 93.39
2007 91.31
2008 88.74
2009 87.30
2010 87.93
2011 85.70
2012 82.26
2013 82.09
2014 88.29
2015 86.61
2016 86.47
2017 86.50

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