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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Lao PDR was 149.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 412.66 in 1960 and a minimum value of 149.95 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 412.66
1961 409.49
1962 406.32
1963 403.28
1964 400.23
1965 397.19
1966 394.15
1967 391.11
1968 387.93
1969 384.75
1970 381.57
1971 378.39
1972 375.21
1973 372.59
1974 369.97
1975 367.34
1976 364.72
1977 362.10
1978 359.21
1979 356.32
1980 353.43
1981 350.55
1982 347.66
1983 342.90
1984 338.14
1985 333.38
1986 328.62
1987 323.85
1988 318.29
1989 312.73
1990 307.16
1991 301.60
1992 296.04
1993 290.44
1994 284.85
1995 279.25
1996 273.66
1997 268.07
1998 262.20
1999 256.33
2000 250.47
2001 244.60
2002 238.73
2003 232.93
2004 227.13
2005 221.32
2006 215.52
2007 209.72
2008 204.89
2009 200.05
2010 195.22
2011 190.39
2012 185.55
2013 181.56
2014 177.58
2015 173.59
2016 169.60
2017 165.61
2018 156.75
2019 153.35
2020 149.95

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