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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Ireland was 41.59 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 57 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 134.74 in 1960 and a minimum value of 41.59 in 2017.

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 134.74
1961 130.16
1962 128.83
1963 129.91
1964 125.77
1965 120.21
1966 126.47
1967 118.41
1968 120.92
1969 122.97
1970 120.54
1971 116.13
1972 118.58
1973 117.93
1974 115.00
1975 111.01
1976 107.44
1977 105.87
1978 105.88
1979 104.76
1980 100.66
1981 96.90
1982 96.16
1983 94.98
1984 92.36
1985 86.93
1986 87.85
1987 80.76
1988 82.54
1989 81.77
1990 80.64
1991 74.91
1992 77.02
1993 73.61
1994 73.64
1995 73.75
1996 68.43
1997 70.91
1998 67.67
1999 69.63
2000 70.03
2001 65.89
2002 60.49
2003 61.18
2004 60.79
2005 58.59
2006 58.97
2007 53.61
2008 56.90
2009 55.00
2010 50.78
2011 51.43
2012 51.09
2013 48.07
2014 46.13
2015 47.71
2016 44.95
2017 41.59

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