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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Mauritania was 215.08 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 426.88 in 1960 and a minimum value of 215.08 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 426.88
1961 419.13
1962 411.38
1963 405.53
1964 399.68
1965 393.82
1966 387.97
1967 382.12
1968 377.21
1969 372.31
1970 367.41
1971 362.50
1972 357.60
1973 352.32
1974 347.05
1975 341.77
1976 336.50
1977 331.22
1978 324.18
1979 317.15
1980 310.11
1981 303.08
1982 296.04
1983 291.86
1984 287.68
1985 283.50
1986 279.32
1987 275.14
1988 272.98
1989 270.82
1990 268.66
1991 266.50
1992 264.34
1993 263.07
1994 261.80
1995 260.53
1996 259.27
1997 258.00
1998 257.00
1999 256.00
2000 255.00
2001 254.00
2002 253.00
2003 250.80
2004 248.60
2005 246.40
2006 244.20
2007 242.00
2008 239.60
2009 237.20
2010 234.80
2011 232.40
2012 230.00
2013 228.70
2014 227.39
2015 226.08
2016 224.78
2017 223.47
2018 218.36
2019 216.72
2020 215.08

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