Hong Kong SAR, China - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 32.15 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 138.77 in 1960 and a minimum value of 32.15 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 138.77
1961 134.39
1962 130.02
1963 126.92
1964 123.82
1965 120.72
1966 117.62
1967 114.52
1968 112.69
1969 110.87
1970 109.04
1971 107.21
1972 105.38
1973 102.98
1974 100.58
1975 98.19
1976 95.79
1977 93.39
1978 90.27
1979 87.15
1980 84.02
1981 80.90
1982 77.78
1983 75.17
1984 72.56
1985 69.95
1986 67.34
1987 64.73
1988 63.14
1989 61.56
1990 59.97
1991 58.39
1992 56.80
1993 54.99
1994 53.17
1995 51.36
1996 49.55
1997 47.73
1998 46.63
1999 45.53
2000 44.43
2001 43.33
2002 42.23
2003 41.61
2004 40.99
2005 40.37
2006 39.75
2007 39.13
2008 38.83
2009 38.52
2010 38.22
2011 37.91
2012 37.61
2013 36.80
2014 36.00
2015 35.19
2016 34.39
2017 33.58
2018 33.10
2019 32.63
2020 32.15

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