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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Gabon was 177.78 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 424.22 in 1960 and a minimum value of 177.78 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 424.22
1961 420.90
1962 417.59
1963 408.78
1964 399.98
1965 391.18
1966 382.37
1967 373.57
1968 365.62
1969 357.67
1970 349.72
1971 341.77
1972 333.82
1973 326.17
1974 318.53
1975 310.88
1976 303.24
1977 295.60
1978 287.86
1979 280.12
1980 272.38
1981 264.65
1982 256.91
1983 250.80
1984 244.69
1985 238.58
1986 232.47
1987 226.36
1988 228.54
1989 230.72
1990 232.89
1991 235.07
1992 237.25
1993 245.89
1994 254.54
1995 263.19
1996 271.84
1997 280.49
1998 289.35
1999 298.22
2000 307.08
2001 315.95
2002 324.81
2003 322.04
2004 319.26
2005 316.48
2006 313.70
2007 310.93
2008 297.09
2009 283.25
2010 269.40
2011 255.56
2012 241.72
2013 234.28
2014 226.84
2015 219.39
2016 211.95
2017 204.51
2018 182.32
2019 180.05
2020 177.78

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