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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Malawi was 312.68 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 639.63 in 2002 and a minimum value of 312.68 in 2020.

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 448.65
1961 446.25
1962 443.84
1963 441.70
1964 439.56
1965 437.42
1966 435.28
1967 433.14
1968 428.62
1969 424.10
1970 419.58
1971 415.06
1972 410.53
1973 406.91
1974 403.29
1975 399.66
1976 396.04
1977 392.42
1978 391.22
1979 390.02
1980 388.81
1981 387.61
1982 386.41
1983 393.18
1984 399.94
1985 406.70
1986 413.46
1987 420.22
1988 437.20
1989 454.19
1990 471.17
1991 488.15
1992 505.13
1993 524.06
1994 543.00
1995 561.94
1996 580.87
1997 599.81
1998 607.77
1999 615.74
2000 623.70
2001 631.66
2002 639.63
2003 619.23
2004 598.84
2005 578.44
2006 558.04
2007 537.65
2008 506.59
2009 475.53
2010 444.47
2011 413.41
2012 382.35
2013 372.09
2014 361.83
2015 351.57
2016 341.31
2017 331.04
2018 325.11
2019 318.89
2020 312.68

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