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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 268.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 470.33 in 1960 and a minimum value of 268.27 in 2020.

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 470.33
1961 467.85
1962 465.37
1963 462.29
1964 459.21
1965 456.13
1966 453.05
1967 449.97
1968 445.96
1969 441.96
1970 437.95
1971 433.94
1972 429.94
1973 428.02
1974 426.10
1975 424.18
1976 422.26
1977 420.35
1978 417.23
1979 414.12
1980 411.00
1981 407.89
1982 404.77
1983 402.67
1984 400.58
1985 398.48
1986 396.39
1987 394.29
1988 391.72
1989 389.15
1990 386.58
1991 384.00
1992 381.43
1993 382.77
1994 384.10
1995 385.43
1996 386.77
1997 388.10
1998 382.34
1999 376.57
2000 370.81
2001 365.04
2002 359.28
2003 352.01
2004 344.75
2005 337.48
2006 330.22
2007 322.95
2008 317.67
2009 312.39
2010 307.11
2011 301.83
2012 296.55
2013 292.49
2014 288.42
2015 284.36
2016 280.29
2017 276.22
2018 273.57
2019 270.92
2020 268.27

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