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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Ethiopia was 177.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 438.49 in 1960 and a minimum value of 177.39 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 438.49
1961 430.61
1962 422.72
1963 418.24
1964 413.76
1965 409.28
1966 404.79
1967 400.31
1968 397.39
1969 394.47
1970 391.55
1971 388.63
1972 385.71
1973 384.15
1974 382.59
1975 381.02
1976 379.46
1977 377.90
1978 379.61
1979 381.32
1980 383.03
1981 384.74
1982 386.45
1983 381.24
1984 376.03
1985 370.82
1986 365.61
1987 360.40
1988 358.82
1989 357.23
1990 355.65
1991 354.07
1992 352.48
1993 354.87
1994 357.26
1995 359.64
1996 362.03
1997 364.42
1998 364.79
1999 365.16
2000 365.54
2001 365.91
2002 366.28
2003 350.16
2004 334.04
2005 317.91
2006 301.79
2007 285.67
2008 271.32
2009 256.97
2010 242.62
2011 228.27
2012 213.92
2013 208.84
2014 203.77
2015 198.69
2016 193.62
2017 188.54
2018 184.81
2019 181.10
2020 177.39

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