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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Japan was 35.55 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 148.96 in 1960 and a minimum value of 35.55 in 2019.

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 148.96
1961 142.17
1962 137.33
1963 128.67
1964 123.78
1965 120.79
1966 115.15
1967 110.85
1968 108.42
1969 106.06
1970 104.12
1971 97.05
1972 94.03
1973 91.29
1974 87.41
1975 84.18
1976 79.95
1977 75.62
1978 73.19
1979 70.68
1980 69.04
1981 66.56
1982 64.58
1983 63.55
1984 61.77
1985 60.37
1986 58.43
1987 56.65
1988 56.04
1989 54.93
1990 53.46
1991 53.07
1992 52.53
1993 51.54
1994 49.99
1995 51.72
1996 49.25
1997 48.73
1998 49.11
1999 48.94
2000 47.66
2001 46.40
2002 45.40
2003 44.95
2004 45.36
2005 45.04
2006 44.09
2007 43.22
2008 42.71
2009 41.65
2010 41.44
2011 45.25
2012 39.81
2013 39.19
2014 38.72
2015 37.11
2016 36.95
2017 35.72
2018 35.82
2019 35.55

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