Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) - Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) was 264.70 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 485.69 in 1960 and a minimum value of 264.70 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 485.69
1961 480.74
1962 475.78
1963 471.22
1964 466.70
1965 462.21
1966 457.72
1967 453.27
1968 448.63
1969 444.01
1970 439.41
1971 434.76
1972 430.12
1973 425.89
1974 421.68
1975 417.47
1976 413.27
1977 409.07
1978 406.23
1979 403.36
1980 400.47
1981 397.50
1982 394.55
1983 393.04
1984 391.61
1985 390.28
1986 388.96
1987 387.73
1988 390.52
1989 393.37
1990 396.19
1991 398.74
1992 400.98
1993 401.83
1994 402.84
1995 404.02
1996 405.28
1997 406.64
1998 404.00
1999 401.38
2000 398.77
2001 396.05
2002 393.30
2003 382.92
2004 372.57
2005 362.27
2006 352.00
2007 341.75
2008 334.11
2009 326.47
2010 318.81
2011 311.09
2012 303.35
2013 297.50
2014 291.69
2015 285.91
2016 280.17
2017 274.46
2018 271.44
2019 268.07
2020 264.70

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