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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Korea was 31.19 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 242.93 in 1960 and a minimum value of 31.19 in 2020.

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 242.93
1961 240.80
1962 238.68
1963 235.27
1964 231.87
1965 228.46
1966 225.06
1967 221.65
1968 217.84
1969 214.02
1970 210.21
1971 206.39
1972 202.58
1973 196.47
1974 190.37
1975 184.26
1976 178.15
1977 172.05
1978 166.25
1979 160.45
1980 154.66
1981 148.86
1982 143.06
1983 137.06
1984 131.06
1985 125.05
1986 119.05
1987 113.04
1988 108.23
1989 103.41
1990 98.59
1991 93.78
1992 88.96
1993 85.27
1994 81.58
1995 77.89
1996 74.20
1997 70.51
1998 67.45
1999 64.39
2000 61.33
2001 58.27
2002 55.20
2003 53.56
2004 51.92
2005 50.28
2006 48.64
2007 47.00
2008 45.61
2009 44.22
2010 42.83
2011 41.43
2012 40.04
2013 38.62
2014 37.19
2015 35.77
2016 34.34
2017 32.92
2018 32.34
2019 31.76
2020 31.19

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