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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Guyana was 266.68 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 316.53 in 1960 and a minimum value of 245.42 in 2017.

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 316.53
1961 314.43
1962 312.32
1963 310.33
1964 308.34
1965 306.35
1966 304.36
1967 302.37
1968 301.78
1969 301.19
1970 300.60
1971 300.01
1972 299.42
1973 299.41
1974 299.40
1975 299.40
1976 299.39
1977 299.39
1978 299.38
1979 299.38
1980 299.37
1981 299.36
1982 299.36
1983 300.81
1984 302.26
1985 303.71
1986 305.17
1987 306.62
1988 306.08
1989 305.55
1990 305.02
1991 304.49
1992 303.96
1993 301.19
1994 298.43
1995 295.66
1996 292.90
1997 290.13
1998 287.48
1999 284.83
2000 282.18
2001 279.53
2002 276.88
2003 274.34
2004 271.80
2005 269.26
2006 266.72
2007 264.18
2008 261.75
2009 259.32
2010 256.89
2011 254.46
2012 252.03
2013 250.70
2014 249.38
2015 248.06
2016 246.74
2017 245.42
2018 268.87
2019 267.78
2020 266.68

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