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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in China was 58.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 397.32 in 1960 and a minimum value of 58.63 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 397.32
1961 396.27
1962 395.23
1963 371.22
1964 347.21
1965 323.21
1966 299.20
1967 275.19
1968 257.75
1969 240.31
1970 222.87
1971 205.42
1972 187.98
1973 179.88
1974 171.78
1975 163.68
1976 155.58
1977 147.48
1978 144.03
1979 140.59
1980 137.15
1981 133.71
1982 130.27
1983 127.03
1984 123.79
1985 120.56
1986 117.32
1987 114.08
1988 112.92
1989 111.75
1990 110.58
1991 109.42
1992 108.25
1993 106.49
1994 104.72
1995 102.96
1996 101.19
1997 99.43
1998 97.72
1999 96.01
2000 94.30
2001 92.59
2002 90.88
2003 89.13
2004 87.38
2005 85.64
2006 83.89
2007 82.14
2008 79.63
2009 77.11
2010 74.59
2011 72.08
2012 69.56
2013 67.87
2014 66.17
2015 64.48
2016 62.79
2017 61.09
2018 60.27
2019 59.45
2020 58.63

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