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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Kenya was 258.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 523.46 in 2002 and a minimum value of 252.22 in 2017.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 414.52
1961 408.19
1962 401.86
1963 396.65
1964 391.44
1965 386.23
1966 381.02
1967 375.81
1968 370.02
1969 364.23
1970 358.45
1971 352.66
1972 346.87
1973 341.40
1974 335.93
1975 330.46
1976 324.99
1977 319.52
1978 315.09
1979 310.66
1980 306.23
1981 301.80
1982 297.37
1983 301.98
1984 306.59
1985 311.20
1986 315.81
1987 320.42
1988 337.92
1989 355.42
1990 372.93
1991 390.43
1992 407.94
1993 429.32
1994 450.71
1995 472.09
1996 493.48
1997 514.86
1998 516.58
1999 518.30
2000 520.02
2001 521.74
2002 523.46
2003 493.22
2004 462.97
2005 432.73
2006 402.48
2007 372.23
2008 354.17
2009 336.10
2010 318.03
2011 299.96
2012 281.89
2013 275.96
2014 270.03
2015 264.09
2016 258.16
2017 252.22
2018 264.72
2019 261.66
2020 258.61

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