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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Ghana was 207.81 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 368.98 in 1960 and a minimum value of 207.81 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 368.98
1961 363.87
1962 358.76
1963 355.16
1964 351.55
1965 347.95
1966 344.35
1967 340.75
1968 336.67
1969 332.58
1970 328.50
1971 324.42
1972 320.33
1973 317.30
1974 314.27
1975 311.24
1976 308.21
1977 305.18
1978 302.51
1979 299.84
1980 297.17
1981 294.50
1982 291.83
1983 287.76
1984 283.68
1985 279.61
1986 275.54
1987 271.46
1988 266.40
1989 261.35
1990 256.29
1991 251.23
1992 246.18
1993 252.56
1994 258.93
1995 265.31
1996 271.69
1997 278.07
1998 278.70
1999 279.32
2000 279.94
2001 280.56
2002 281.19
2003 274.37
2004 267.55
2005 260.73
2006 253.92
2007 247.10
2008 244.88
2009 242.66
2010 240.44
2011 238.22
2012 236.00
2013 232.32
2014 228.64
2015 224.96
2016 221.28
2017 217.60
2018 214.33
2019 211.07
2020 207.81

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