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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Eswatini was 299.05 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 576.76 in 2002 and a minimum value of 238.94 in 1987.

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 398.22
1961 394.75
1962 391.27
1963 387.75
1964 384.23
1965 380.71
1966 377.19
1967 373.67
1968 367.75
1969 361.82
1970 355.90
1971 349.98
1972 344.06
1973 338.10
1974 332.14
1975 326.18
1976 320.21
1977 314.25
1978 306.80
1979 299.35
1980 291.89
1981 284.44
1982 276.99
1983 269.38
1984 261.77
1985 254.16
1986 246.55
1987 238.94
1988 241.56
1989 244.19
1990 246.82
1991 249.45
1992 252.08
1993 282.92
1994 313.77
1995 344.62
1996 375.47
1997 406.31
1998 440.40
1999 474.49
2000 508.58
2001 542.67
2002 576.76
2003 567.53
2004 558.29
2005 549.05
2006 539.81
2007 530.57
2008 500.45
2009 470.33
2010 440.21
2011 410.09
2012 379.97
2013 374.03
2014 368.08
2015 362.13
2016 356.18
2017 350.24
2018 309.88
2019 304.47
2020 299.05

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