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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Ghana was 249.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 407.57 in 1960 and a minimum value of 249.29 in 2020.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 407.57
1961 403.38
1962 399.19
1963 396.08
1964 392.98
1965 389.87
1966 386.76
1967 383.65
1968 382.11
1969 380.58
1970 379.04
1971 377.51
1972 375.97
1973 372.82
1974 369.68
1975 366.53
1976 363.38
1977 360.24
1978 357.13
1979 354.02
1980 350.91
1981 347.81
1982 344.70
1983 339.73
1984 334.75
1985 329.78
1986 324.80
1987 319.83
1988 315.02
1989 310.22
1990 305.42
1991 300.62
1992 295.81
1993 300.12
1994 304.42
1995 308.73
1996 313.03
1997 317.33
1998 317.91
1999 318.49
2000 319.06
2001 319.64
2002 320.22
2003 312.93
2004 305.64
2005 298.35
2006 291.06
2007 283.77
2008 281.81
2009 279.86
2010 277.91
2011 275.95
2012 274.00
2013 270.77
2014 267.54
2015 264.31
2016 261.07
2017 257.84
2018 254.99
2019 252.14
2020 249.29

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