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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Latvia was 84.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 172.12 in 1994 and a minimum value of 84.50 in 2019.

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 117.67
1961 112.40
1962 115.51
1963 112.62
1964 106.32
1965 105.57
1966 109.72
1967 113.04
1968 105.89
1969 107.90
1970 116.97
1971 109.52
1972 114.65
1973 116.70
1974 110.44
1975 111.27
1976 112.50
1977 116.74
1978 120.45
1979 123.06
1980 122.18
1981 124.13
1982 117.12
1983 119.03
1984 121.27
1985 120.33
1986 107.46
1987 108.82
1988 107.46
1989 117.13
1990 117.65
1991 117.19
1992 128.28
1993 149.22
1994 172.12
1995 165.86
1996 132.62
1997 126.96
1998 131.68
1999 130.44
2000 121.79
2001 124.28
2002 118.34
2003 121.84
2004 117.07
2005 116.97
2006 126.53
2007 118.27
2008 106.76
2009 102.47
2010 98.66
2011 94.85
2012 87.36
2013 93.69
2014 89.02
2015 85.92
2016 87.50
2017 85.37
2018 85.90
2019 84.50

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