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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 219.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 412.56 in 1960 and a minimum value of 219.13 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 412.56
1961 410.21
1962 407.86
1963 404.93
1964 402.00
1965 399.08
1966 396.15
1967 393.22
1968 389.44
1969 385.67
1970 381.90
1971 378.12
1972 374.35
1973 372.55
1974 370.75
1975 368.95
1976 367.15
1977 365.35
1978 362.44
1979 359.53
1980 356.62
1981 353.71
1982 350.80
1983 348.69
1984 346.57
1985 344.46
1986 342.35
1987 340.23
1988 337.73
1989 335.23
1990 332.73
1991 330.23
1992 327.73
1993 328.99
1994 330.26
1995 331.53
1996 332.79
1997 334.06
1998 328.61
1999 323.15
2000 317.70
2001 312.24
2002 306.79
2003 299.98
2004 293.16
2005 286.35
2006 279.53
2007 272.72
2008 267.80
2009 262.89
2010 257.97
2011 253.06
2012 248.14
2013 243.99
2014 239.84
2015 235.69
2016 231.54
2017 227.39
2018 224.64
2019 221.88
2020 219.13

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