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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Guatemala was 108.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 357.91 in 1960 and a minimum value of 108.19 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 357.91
1961 350.39
1962 342.87
1963 334.62
1964 326.38
1965 318.14
1966 309.89
1967 301.65
1968 294.21
1969 286.77
1970 279.34
1971 271.90
1972 264.46
1973 260.39
1974 256.31
1975 252.23
1976 248.15
1977 244.08
1978 240.45
1979 236.83
1980 233.21
1981 229.58
1982 225.96
1983 221.73
1984 217.49
1985 213.26
1986 209.03
1987 204.79
1988 200.47
1989 196.16
1990 191.84
1991 187.52
1992 183.20
1993 178.51
1994 173.82
1995 169.13
1996 164.44
1997 159.75
1998 156.59
1999 153.42
2000 150.26
2001 147.10
2002 143.93
2003 141.94
2004 139.96
2005 137.97
2006 135.98
2007 133.99
2008 131.01
2009 128.02
2010 125.03
2011 122.04
2012 119.05
2013 117.26
2014 115.46
2015 113.67
2016 111.87
2017 110.08
2018 111.16
2019 109.68
2020 108.19

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