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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Guinea-Bissau was 292.86 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 439.92 in 1960 and a minimum value of 237.37 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 439.92
1961 435.60
1962 431.28
1963 425.82
1964 420.36
1965 414.90
1966 409.44
1967 403.98
1968 398.49
1969 392.99
1970 387.49
1971 381.99
1972 376.50
1973 371.77
1974 367.04
1975 362.31
1976 357.58
1977 352.85
1978 346.48
1979 340.12
1980 333.75
1981 327.38
1982 321.02
1983 316.66
1984 312.29
1985 307.93
1986 303.57
1987 299.21
1988 294.66
1989 290.11
1990 285.57
1991 281.02
1992 276.47
1993 276.72
1994 276.97
1995 277.22
1996 277.47
1997 277.72
1998 281.70
1999 285.67
2000 289.64
2001 293.61
2002 297.58
2003 292.85
2004 288.12
2005 283.39
2006 278.66
2007 273.92
2008 270.18
2009 266.43
2010 262.69
2011 258.95
2012 255.20
2013 251.63
2014 248.07
2015 244.50
2016 240.93
2017 237.37
2018 301.21
2019 297.03
2020 292.86

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