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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Bulgaria was 183.96 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 246.72 in 1994 and a minimum value of 152.05 in 1965.

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 165.15
1961 162.38
1962 165.87
1963 159.59
1964 154.41
1965 152.05
1966 155.08
1967 164.44
1968 160.59
1969 169.05
1970 160.03
1971 172.89
1972 172.49
1973 164.40
1974 169.38
1975 177.54
1976 173.45
1977 185.43
1978 184.60
1979 191.12
1980 190.34
1981 188.29
1982 197.35
1983 198.16
1984 202.67
1985 210.85
1986 208.53
1987 206.52
1988 210.21
1989 217.85
1990 219.41
1991 212.45
1992 229.64
1993 240.23
1994 246.72
1995 245.66
1996 238.02
1997 244.07
1998 241.48
1999 222.46
2000 225.01
2001 222.77
2002 218.17
2003 215.85
2004 216.00
2005 219.43
2006 218.69
2007 212.03
2008 208.15
2009 203.75
2010 196.90
2011 194.11
2012 187.92
2013 184.81
2014 190.23
2015 185.53
2016 187.26
2017 183.96

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