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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in France was 48.35 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 115.17 in 1960 and a minimum value of 48.29 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 115.17
1961 109.19
1962 111.70
1963 112.45
1964 107.28
1965 108.86
1966 105.89
1967 105.47
1968 104.27
1969 106.25
1970 101.13
1971 101.06
1972 100.36
1973 97.17
1974 95.63
1975 95.07
1976 92.71
1977 88.74
1978 88.00
1979 86.13
1980 84.92
1981 82.43
1982 80.83
1983 80.98
1984 78.00
1985 76.69
1986 75.08
1987 72.87
1988 72.03
1989 70.86
1990 68.98
1991 68.20
1992 67.62
1993 68.14
1994 66.54
1995 65.93
1996 65.40
1997 63.37
1998 62.74
1999 62.11
2000 60.94
2001 61.00
2002 60.63
2003 60.01
2004 57.92
2005 56.75
2006 56.17
2007 54.82
2008 55.02
2009 55.37
2010 53.66
2011 52.55
2012 51.59
2013 50.51
2014 49.31
2015 49.38
2016 48.32
2017 48.29
2018 48.35

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