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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Latvia was 210.61 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 469.73 in 1994 and a minimum value of 210.61 in 2019.

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 229.75
1961 234.31
1962 236.18
1963 233.18
1964 217.25
1965 232.88
1966 230.76
1967 240.13
1968 262.82
1969 270.01
1970 258.48
1971 268.11
1972 279.09
1973 279.42
1974 288.79
1975 303.84
1976 300.02
1977 301.06
1978 308.96
1979 317.99
1980 318.95
1981 326.57
1982 310.16
1983 317.01
1984 315.81
1985 300.65
1986 261.74
1987 262.39
1988 269.21
1989 291.35
1990 309.93
1991 326.51
1992 354.49
1993 417.22
1994 469.73
1995 439.52
1996 362.43
1997 338.96
1998 353.20
1999 338.19
2000 329.84
2001 339.78
2002 332.09
2003 313.48
2004 309.23
2005 325.30
2006 335.50
2007 323.61
2008 290.73
2009 268.98
2010 263.09
2011 247.42
2012 243.19
2013 242.15
2014 241.36
2015 234.55
2016 229.59
2017 228.58
2018 229.12
2019 210.61

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