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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Malawi was 201.59 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 543.31 in 2002 and a minimum value of 201.59 in 2020.

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 401.87
1961 399.02
1962 396.17
1963 393.70
1964 391.23
1965 388.75
1966 386.28
1967 383.80
1968 379.01
1969 374.22
1970 369.43
1971 364.64
1972 359.85
1973 355.52
1974 351.19
1975 346.87
1976 342.54
1977 338.22
1978 334.64
1979 331.06
1980 327.48
1981 323.90
1982 320.32
1983 320.89
1984 321.47
1985 322.05
1986 322.63
1987 323.21
1988 333.94
1989 344.67
1990 355.40
1991 366.13
1992 376.86
1993 397.20
1994 417.53
1995 437.87
1996 458.21
1997 478.55
1998 491.50
1999 504.45
2000 517.40
2001 530.35
2002 543.31
2003 522.03
2004 500.76
2005 479.48
2006 458.21
2007 436.93
2008 403.29
2009 369.65
2010 336.01
2011 302.37
2012 268.73
2013 258.54
2014 248.34
2015 238.15
2016 227.95
2017 217.76
2018 212.39
2019 206.99
2020 201.59

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