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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Costa Rica was 55.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 198.81 in 1960 and a minimum value of 55.42 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 198.81
1961 190.35
1962 181.90
1963 176.85
1964 171.81
1965 166.76
1966 161.72
1967 156.67
1968 152.23
1969 147.79
1970 143.35
1971 138.91
1972 134.47
1973 130.72
1974 126.98
1975 123.24
1976 119.50
1977 115.76
1978 111.97
1979 108.18
1980 104.39
1981 100.60
1982 96.81
1983 94.75
1984 92.69
1985 90.63
1986 88.57
1987 86.50
1988 85.29
1989 84.08
1990 82.87
1991 81.65
1992 80.44
1993 79.20
1994 77.96
1995 76.72
1996 75.48
1997 74.24
1998 73.30
1999 72.35
2000 71.41
2001 70.47
2002 69.53
2003 68.90
2004 68.28
2005 67.65
2006 67.03
2007 66.40
2008 65.51
2009 64.61
2010 63.72
2011 62.82
2012 61.92
2013 61.13
2014 60.33
2015 59.54
2016 58.74
2017 57.94
2018 56.97
2019 56.19
2020 55.42

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