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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Hong Kong SAR, China was 60.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 243.48 in 1960 and a minimum value of 60.42 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 243.48
1961 237.47
1962 231.47
1963 226.55
1964 221.63
1965 216.70
1966 211.78
1967 206.86
1968 204.32
1969 201.77
1970 199.23
1971 196.69
1972 194.14
1973 189.30
1974 184.45
1975 179.61
1976 174.76
1977 169.92
1978 165.06
1979 160.21
1980 155.36
1981 150.50
1982 145.65
1983 141.52
1984 137.38
1985 133.25
1986 129.11
1987 124.97
1988 122.68
1989 120.38
1990 118.08
1991 115.78
1992 113.48
1993 110.06
1994 106.63
1995 103.21
1996 99.78
1997 96.36
1998 94.19
1999 92.03
2000 89.87
2001 87.70
2002 85.54
2003 83.65
2004 81.76
2005 79.87
2006 77.99
2007 76.10
2008 75.13
2009 74.17
2010 73.21
2011 72.24
2012 71.28
2013 69.55
2014 67.82
2015 66.09
2016 64.37
2017 62.64
2018 61.90
2019 61.16
2020 60.42

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