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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Cameroon was 310.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 462.01 in 1960 and a minimum value of 310.50 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 462.01
1961 456.93
1962 451.86
1963 446.98
1964 442.11
1965 437.24
1966 432.37
1967 427.50
1968 422.54
1969 417.58
1970 412.62
1971 407.66
1972 402.70
1973 397.67
1974 392.63
1975 387.60
1976 382.57
1977 377.53
1978 373.86
1979 370.19
1980 366.51
1981 362.84
1982 359.17
1983 359.35
1984 359.54
1985 359.73
1986 359.91
1987 360.10
1988 366.27
1989 372.45
1990 378.62
1991 384.79
1992 390.96
1993 398.73
1994 406.49
1995 414.25
1996 422.01
1997 429.78
1998 428.30
1999 426.83
2000 425.35
2001 423.88
2002 422.41
2003 414.57
2004 406.73
2005 398.90
2006 391.06
2007 383.22
2008 382.11
2009 381.01
2010 379.90
2011 378.79
2012 377.68
2013 370.33
2014 362.98
2015 355.63
2016 348.28
2017 340.93
2018 317.69
2019 314.09
2020 310.50

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