Dem. People's Rep. Korea - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Dem. People's Rep. Korea was 93.02 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 355.97 in 1960 and a minimum value of 82.75 in 1992.

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 355.97
1961 349.13
1962 342.29
1963 328.48
1964 314.66
1965 300.85
1966 287.03
1967 273.22
1968 261.27
1969 249.33
1970 237.38
1971 225.43
1972 213.49
1973 205.24
1974 196.99
1975 188.73
1976 180.48
1977 172.23
1978 167.47
1979 162.70
1980 157.94
1981 153.18
1982 148.41
1983 144.91
1984 141.42
1985 137.92
1986 134.42
1987 130.92
1988 121.29
1989 111.65
1990 102.02
1991 92.38
1992 82.75
1993 94.69
1994 106.63
1995 118.57
1996 130.51
1997 142.45
1998 139.84
1999 137.24
2000 134.64
2001 132.04
2002 129.44
2003 128.78
2004 128.12
2005 127.46
2006 126.80
2007 126.14
2008 122.05
2009 117.96
2010 113.87
2011 109.77
2012 105.68
2013 103.97
2014 102.26
2015 100.54
2016 98.83
2017 97.12
2018 95.76
2019 94.39
2020 93.02

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