Denmark - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Denmark was 71.50 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 166.88 in 1976 and a minimum value of 71.50 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 150.52
1961 150.91
1962 156.76
1963 155.87
1964 156.63
1965 158.79
1966 156.49
1967 157.00
1968 153.06
1969 154.29
1970 158.53
1971 160.26
1972 161.35
1973 163.15
1974 164.69
1975 159.87
1976 166.88
1977 159.73
1978 159.52
1979 166.57
1980 166.79
1981 165.79
1982 164.53
1983 164.82
1984 161.52
1985 162.22
1986 161.74
1987 162.61
1988 156.78
1989 159.54
1990 155.21
1991 150.62
1992 147.32
1993 146.05
1994 145.67
1995 142.31
1996 141.13
1997 133.33
1998 128.91
1999 127.69
2000 125.92
2001 123.93
2002 124.08
2003 121.10
2004 118.17
2005 111.14
2006 115.83
2007 115.94
2008 107.45
2009 106.70
2010 104.85
2011 97.16
2012 92.57
2013 90.15
2014 86.72
2015 82.95
2016 82.43
2017 78.19
2018 77.90
2019 73.63
2020 71.50

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