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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Cuba was 72.76 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 178.88 in 1960 and a minimum value of 69.26 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 178.88
1961 173.20
1962 167.52
1963 161.77
1964 156.02
1965 150.27
1966 144.52
1967 138.77
1968 135.28
1969 131.79
1970 128.30
1971 124.81
1972 121.32
1973 120.08
1974 118.83
1975 117.59
1976 116.35
1977 115.10
1978 113.55
1979 111.99
1980 110.43
1981 108.87
1982 107.32
1983 106.93
1984 106.55
1985 106.16
1986 105.78
1987 105.39
1988 105.54
1989 105.68
1990 105.83
1991 105.97
1992 106.12
1993 103.47
1994 100.83
1995 98.18
1996 95.54
1997 92.89
1998 91.46
1999 90.03
2000 88.60
2001 87.16
2002 85.73
2003 84.02
2004 82.31
2005 80.61
2006 78.90
2007 77.19
2008 76.44
2009 75.68
2010 74.92
2011 74.17
2012 73.41
2013 72.58
2014 71.75
2015 70.92
2016 70.09
2017 69.26
2018 73.99
2019 73.38
2020 72.76

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