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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Lao PDR was 199.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 481.47 in 1960 and a minimum value of 199.12 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 481.47
1961 477.51
1962 473.55
1963 469.64
1964 465.72
1965 461.80
1966 457.89
1967 453.97
1968 450.15
1969 446.33
1970 442.51
1971 438.69
1972 434.86
1973 431.56
1974 428.27
1975 424.97
1976 421.67
1977 418.37
1978 415.09
1979 411.81
1980 408.53
1981 405.25
1982 401.97
1983 396.33
1984 390.69
1985 385.05
1986 379.41
1987 373.77
1988 368.64
1989 363.50
1990 358.36
1991 353.22
1992 348.08
1993 342.01
1994 335.93
1995 329.85
1996 323.78
1997 317.70
1998 311.28
1999 304.86
2000 298.44
2001 292.02
2002 285.60
2003 279.16
2004 272.73
2005 266.29
2006 259.86
2007 253.42
2008 248.56
2009 243.70
2010 238.84
2011 233.98
2012 229.12
2013 225.30
2014 221.48
2015 217.66
2016 213.84
2017 210.02
2018 205.59
2019 202.36
2020 199.12

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