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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Burkina Faso was 218.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 463.65 in 1960 and a minimum value of 218.96 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 463.65
1961 457.83
1962 452.01
1963 446.67
1964 441.34
1965 436.00
1966 430.67
1967 425.33
1968 419.36
1969 413.39
1970 407.42
1971 401.45
1972 395.48
1973 387.63
1974 379.79
1975 371.94
1976 364.09
1977 356.24
1978 342.57
1979 328.89
1980 315.21
1981 301.53
1982 287.85
1983 287.98
1984 288.11
1985 288.23
1986 288.36
1987 288.48
1988 291.05
1989 293.62
1990 296.19
1991 298.76
1992 301.33
1993 301.39
1994 301.45
1995 301.51
1996 301.57
1997 301.63
1998 300.61
1999 299.59
2000 298.57
2001 297.55
2002 296.53
2003 293.01
2004 289.48
2005 285.96
2006 282.43
2007 278.91
2008 274.55
2009 270.19
2010 265.83
2011 261.47
2012 257.11
2013 252.23
2014 247.36
2015 242.49
2016 237.62
2017 232.74
2018 228.16
2019 223.56
2020 218.96

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