IDA only - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in IDA only was 179.80 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 404.10 in 1960 and a minimum value of 179.80 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 404.10
1961 399.26
1962 394.42
1963 389.34
1964 384.28
1965 379.25
1966 374.14
1967 369.05
1968 365.05
1969 361.11
1970 357.22
1971 353.35
1972 349.55
1973 346.18
1974 342.79
1975 339.31
1976 335.63
1977 331.79
1978 326.45
1979 321.18
1980 315.99
1981 310.86
1982 305.75
1983 302.53
1984 299.36
1985 296.24
1986 293.10
1987 290.03
1988 289.61
1989 289.26
1990 288.93
1991 288.53
1992 288.05
1993 288.26
1994 288.56
1995 288.93
1996 289.21
1997 289.56
1998 287.06
1999 284.61
2000 282.20
2001 279.80
2002 277.44
2003 270.22
2004 263.03
2005 255.86
2006 248.63
2007 241.43
2008 234.84
2009 228.28
2010 221.77
2011 215.24
2012 208.72
2013 204.64
2014 200.55
2015 196.45
2016 192.30
2017 188.14
2018 185.22
2019 182.52
2020 179.80

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