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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Ecuador was 85.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 270.39 in 1960 and a minimum value of 83.55 in 2017.

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 270.39
1961 262.05
1962 253.71
1963 250.07
1964 246.43
1965 242.79
1966 239.15
1967 235.51
1968 231.77
1969 228.02
1970 224.27
1971 220.52
1972 216.77
1973 211.03
1974 205.29
1975 199.54
1976 193.80
1977 188.05
1978 182.46
1979 176.86
1980 171.27
1981 165.68
1982 160.08
1983 155.56
1984 151.03
1985 146.50
1986 141.97
1987 137.44
1988 134.88
1989 132.31
1990 129.75
1991 127.19
1992 124.62
1993 123.82
1994 123.02
1995 122.22
1996 121.42
1997 120.62
1998 118.77
1999 116.93
2000 115.08
2001 113.23
2002 111.39
2003 108.77
2004 106.15
2005 103.54
2006 100.92
2007 98.30
2008 96.59
2009 94.88
2010 93.17
2011 91.46
2012 89.75
2013 88.51
2014 87.27
2015 86.03
2016 84.79
2017 83.55
2018 88.07
2019 86.93
2020 85.79

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