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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Korea was 76.77 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 402.31 in 1960 and a minimum value of 76.77 in 2020.

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 402.31
1961 397.73
1962 393.15
1963 387.01
1964 380.87
1965 374.74
1966 368.60
1967 362.46
1968 359.32
1969 356.18
1970 353.04
1971 349.90
1972 346.76
1973 342.29
1974 337.83
1975 333.36
1976 328.90
1977 324.44
1978 318.63
1979 312.82
1980 307.02
1981 301.21
1982 295.40
1983 287.01
1984 278.61
1985 270.21
1986 261.81
1987 253.42
1988 246.69
1989 239.96
1990 233.23
1991 226.51
1992 219.78
1993 212.63
1994 205.48
1995 198.33
1996 191.18
1997 184.03
1998 175.93
1999 167.83
2000 159.72
2001 151.62
2002 143.52
2003 137.78
2004 132.05
2005 126.32
2006 120.58
2007 114.85
2008 111.33
2009 107.81
2010 104.29
2011 100.76
2012 97.24
2013 93.90
2014 90.55
2015 87.21
2016 83.86
2017 80.51
2018 79.27
2019 78.02
2020 76.77

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