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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Dominican Republic was 194.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 303.35 in 1960 and a minimum value of 194.34 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 303.35
1961 295.25
1962 287.15
1963 280.46
1964 273.78
1965 267.09
1966 260.41
1967 253.72
1968 251.45
1969 249.17
1970 246.89
1971 244.62
1972 242.34
1973 242.24
1974 242.13
1975 242.02
1976 241.92
1977 241.81
1978 241.44
1979 241.06
1980 240.69
1981 240.32
1982 239.94
1983 239.16
1984 238.37
1985 237.59
1986 236.81
1987 236.02
1988 235.60
1989 235.18
1990 234.76
1991 234.34
1992 233.92
1993 233.68
1994 233.43
1995 233.18
1996 232.94
1997 232.69
1998 232.13
1999 231.58
2000 231.02
2001 230.46
2002 229.91
2003 227.74
2004 225.56
2005 223.39
2006 221.22
2007 219.05
2008 216.99
2009 214.93
2010 212.87
2011 210.80
2012 208.74
2013 207.17
2014 205.59
2015 204.02
2016 202.45
2017 200.87
2018 197.35
2019 195.84
2020 194.34

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