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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Congo was 274.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 430.82 in 2002 and a minimum value of 265.10 in 2017.

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 386.67
1961 380.67
1962 374.66
1963 370.42
1964 366.19
1965 361.95
1966 357.71
1967 353.47
1968 349.98
1969 346.49
1970 343.00
1971 339.51
1972 336.01
1973 333.40
1974 330.79
1975 328.18
1976 325.57
1977 322.96
1978 321.12
1979 319.27
1980 317.43
1981 315.58
1982 313.74
1983 316.27
1984 318.81
1985 321.34
1986 323.87
1987 326.41
1988 335.29
1989 344.17
1990 353.05
1991 361.94
1992 370.82
1993 381.28
1994 391.75
1995 402.22
1996 412.69
1997 423.15
1998 424.69
1999 426.22
2000 427.75
2001 429.29
2002 430.82
2003 415.59
2004 400.36
2005 385.13
2006 369.89
2007 354.66
2008 344.19
2009 333.71
2010 323.24
2011 312.76
2012 302.29
2013 294.85
2014 287.41
2015 279.97
2016 272.54
2017 265.10
2018 279.57
2019 276.98
2020 274.38

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