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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Dominican Republic was 112.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 261.91 in 1960 and a minimum value of 112.55 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 261.91
1961 254.73
1962 247.55
1963 241.62
1964 235.70
1965 229.78
1966 223.85
1967 217.93
1968 215.02
1969 212.10
1970 209.19
1971 206.27
1972 203.36
1973 202.54
1974 201.72
1975 200.90
1976 200.08
1977 199.26
1978 197.40
1979 195.54
1980 193.68
1981 191.82
1982 189.96
1983 186.36
1984 182.75
1985 179.14
1986 175.53
1987 171.92
1988 169.25
1989 166.57
1990 163.89
1991 161.21
1992 158.53
1993 156.53
1994 154.53
1995 152.53
1996 150.53
1997 148.53
1998 146.65
1999 144.76
2000 142.88
2001 141.00
2002 139.12
2003 137.43
2004 135.74
2005 134.05
2006 132.36
2007 130.67
2008 129.11
2009 127.55
2010 125.99
2011 124.44
2012 122.88
2013 121.66
2014 120.44
2015 119.21
2016 117.99
2017 116.77
2018 114.55
2019 113.55
2020 112.55

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