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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Lesotho was 533.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 658.74 in 2002 and a minimum value of 316.28 in 1992.

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 443.06
1961 436.78
1962 430.49
1963 428.94
1964 427.38
1965 425.82
1966 424.26
1967 422.70
1968 419.82
1969 416.94
1970 414.06
1971 411.17
1972 408.29
1973 402.88
1974 397.48
1975 392.07
1976 386.67
1977 381.26
1978 374.52
1979 367.78
1980 361.05
1981 354.31
1982 347.57
1983 343.03
1984 338.50
1985 333.96
1986 329.43
1987 324.89
1988 323.17
1989 321.44
1990 319.72
1991 318.00
1992 316.28
1993 350.27
1994 384.25
1995 418.24
1996 452.23
1997 486.22
1998 520.72
1999 555.23
2000 589.73
2001 624.24
2002 658.74
2003 647.89
2004 637.04
2005 626.20
2006 615.35
2007 604.50
2008 599.28
2009 594.06
2010 588.84
2011 583.62
2012 578.40
2013 572.43
2014 566.47
2015 560.51
2016 554.55
2017 548.58
2018 545.68
2019 539.81
2020 533.95

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