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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Ecuador was 156.96 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 296.71 in 1960 and a minimum value of 156.92 in 2017.

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 296.71
1961 288.06
1962 279.41
1963 276.97
1964 274.53
1965 272.09
1966 269.66
1967 267.22
1968 264.75
1969 262.27
1970 259.80
1971 257.32
1972 254.85
1973 251.46
1974 248.07
1975 244.68
1976 241.30
1977 237.91
1978 234.42
1979 230.94
1980 227.45
1981 223.97
1982 220.48
1983 217.79
1984 215.09
1985 212.39
1986 209.69
1987 206.99
1988 206.13
1989 205.26
1990 204.40
1991 203.53
1992 202.67
1993 203.04
1994 203.42
1995 203.80
1996 204.18
1997 204.56
1998 203.36
1999 202.17
2000 200.97
2001 199.78
2002 198.58
2003 195.35
2004 192.11
2005 188.87
2006 185.63
2007 182.40
2008 179.73
2009 177.07
2010 174.41
2011 171.74
2012 169.08
2013 166.65
2014 164.22
2015 161.78
2016 159.35
2017 156.92
2018 161.14
2019 159.05
2020 156.96

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