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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Burkina Faso was 251.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 543.06 in 1960 and a minimum value of 251.77 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 543.06
1961 536.85
1962 530.64
1963 524.75
1964 518.86
1965 512.97
1966 507.07
1967 501.18
1968 494.95
1969 488.71
1970 482.47
1971 476.23
1972 469.99
1973 461.20
1974 452.41
1975 443.63
1976 434.84
1977 426.05
1978 410.31
1979 394.57
1980 378.83
1981 363.08
1982 347.34
1983 346.79
1984 346.24
1985 345.69
1986 345.14
1987 344.58
1988 347.92
1989 351.26
1990 354.60
1991 357.94
1992 361.28
1993 363.84
1994 366.40
1995 368.96
1996 371.52
1997 374.08
1998 369.04
1999 364.00
2000 358.96
2001 353.92
2002 348.88
2003 341.16
2004 333.44
2005 325.72
2006 318.00
2007 310.28
2008 305.53
2009 300.79
2010 296.05
2011 291.31
2012 286.56
2013 282.18
2014 277.81
2015 273.43
2016 269.05
2017 264.67
2018 260.38
2019 256.08
2020 251.77

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