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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Cameroon was 273.46 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 406.59 in 1960 and a minimum value of 273.46 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 406.59
1961 401.79
1962 397.00
1963 392.42
1964 387.84
1965 383.26
1966 378.68
1967 374.10
1968 368.65
1969 363.19
1970 357.74
1971 352.28
1972 346.83
1973 341.92
1974 337.02
1975 332.12
1976 327.22
1977 322.32
1978 318.58
1979 314.84
1980 311.10
1981 307.36
1982 303.62
1983 303.79
1984 303.96
1985 304.13
1986 304.30
1987 304.47
1988 312.07
1989 319.68
1990 327.29
1991 334.89
1992 342.50
1993 353.03
1994 363.57
1995 374.11
1996 384.64
1997 395.18
1998 395.72
1999 396.27
2000 396.82
2001 397.36
2002 397.91
2003 390.25
2004 382.59
2005 374.93
2006 367.27
2007 359.61
2008 354.79
2009 349.97
2010 345.15
2011 340.33
2012 335.50
2013 331.88
2014 328.25
2015 324.62
2016 321.00
2017 317.37
2018 281.33
2019 277.40
2020 273.46

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