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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Lesotho was 408.47 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 626.09 in 2002 and a minimum value of 254.85 in 1992.

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 376.66
1961 370.75
1962 364.84
1963 363.33
1964 361.82
1965 360.31
1966 358.80
1967 357.28
1968 354.96
1969 352.64
1970 350.31
1971 347.99
1972 345.66
1973 340.79
1974 335.92
1975 331.06
1976 326.19
1977 321.32
1978 314.86
1979 308.40
1980 301.94
1981 295.47
1982 289.01
1983 284.62
1984 280.23
1985 275.84
1986 271.44
1987 267.05
1988 264.61
1989 262.17
1990 259.73
1991 257.29
1992 254.85
1993 289.95
1994 325.06
1995 360.17
1996 395.28
1997 430.39
1998 469.53
1999 508.67
2000 547.81
2001 586.95
2002 626.09
2003 611.74
2004 597.38
2005 583.03
2006 568.68
2007 554.33
2008 538.94
2009 523.55
2010 508.16
2011 492.77
2012 477.38
2013 473.73
2014 470.09
2015 466.44
2016 462.80
2017 459.15
2018 419.36
2019 413.92
2020 408.47

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