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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Iraq was 126.23 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 379.58 in 1960 and a minimum value of 118.94 in 1997.

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 379.58
1961 370.06
1962 360.53
1963 350.14
1964 339.74
1965 329.35
1966 318.96
1967 308.56
1968 301.15
1969 293.75
1970 286.34
1971 278.94
1972 271.53
1973 267.08
1974 262.63
1975 258.17
1976 253.72
1977 249.27
1978 239.03
1979 228.78
1980 218.54
1981 208.29
1982 198.05
1983 191.41
1984 184.76
1985 178.12
1986 171.47
1987 164.83
1988 159.06
1989 153.29
1990 147.53
1991 141.76
1992 135.99
1993 132.58
1994 129.17
1995 125.76
1996 122.35
1997 118.94
1998 122.35
1999 125.76
2000 129.17
2001 132.58
2002 135.99
2003 135.99
2004 135.99
2005 135.99
2006 135.99
2007 135.99
2008 135.99
2009 135.99
2010 135.99
2011 135.99
2012 135.99
2013 133.93
2014 131.86
2015 129.80
2016 127.73
2017 125.67
2018 129.10
2019 127.66
2020 126.23

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