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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Kenya was 188.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 452.88 in 2002 and a minimum value of 174.38 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 349.28
1961 342.33
1962 335.38
1963 330.33
1964 325.28
1965 320.23
1966 315.18
1967 310.13
1968 304.67
1969 299.20
1970 293.74
1971 288.28
1972 282.82
1973 278.10
1974 273.38
1975 268.66
1976 263.94
1977 259.22
1978 254.78
1979 250.35
1980 245.92
1981 241.48
1982 237.05
1983 238.50
1984 239.95
1985 241.40
1986 242.84
1987 244.29
1988 257.31
1989 270.33
1990 283.36
1991 296.38
1992 309.40
1993 332.01
1994 354.61
1995 377.22
1996 399.83
1997 422.44
1998 428.53
1999 434.62
2000 440.70
2001 446.79
2002 452.88
2003 426.09
2004 399.30
2005 372.52
2006 345.73
2007 318.94
2008 294.40
2009 269.86
2010 245.33
2011 220.79
2012 196.25
2013 191.88
2014 187.50
2015 183.13
2016 178.75
2017 174.38
2018 194.51
2019 191.42
2020 188.33

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