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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Congo was 234.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 414.16 in 2002 and a minimum value of 229.78 in 2017.

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 336.22
1961 329.65
1962 323.07
1963 318.39
1964 313.72
1965 309.04
1966 304.36
1967 299.68
1968 296.84
1969 294.00
1970 291.16
1971 288.32
1972 285.48
1973 282.99
1974 280.49
1975 277.99
1976 275.50
1977 273.00
1978 271.09
1979 269.18
1980 267.26
1981 265.35
1982 263.44
1983 266.12
1984 268.81
1985 271.49
1986 274.18
1987 276.86
1988 287.52
1989 298.17
1990 308.83
1991 319.49
1992 330.14
1993 343.86
1994 357.58
1995 371.30
1996 385.02
1997 398.73
1998 401.82
1999 404.90
2000 407.99
2001 411.07
2002 414.16
2003 397.82
2004 381.47
2005 365.13
2006 348.79
2007 332.45
2008 319.26
2009 306.08
2010 292.89
2011 279.71
2012 266.53
2013 259.18
2014 251.83
2015 244.48
2016 237.13
2017 229.78
2018 240.20
2019 237.14
2020 234.08

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