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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Mauritius was 91.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 259.17 in 1960 and a minimum value of 91.65 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 259.17
1961 246.27
1962 233.36
1963 228.27
1964 223.17
1965 218.07
1966 212.98
1967 207.88
1968 201.88
1969 195.88
1970 189.89
1971 183.89
1972 177.89
1973 174.64
1974 171.38
1975 168.12
1976 164.87
1977 161.61
1978 157.13
1979 152.65
1980 148.17
1981 143.69
1982 139.20
1983 137.01
1984 134.82
1985 132.63
1986 130.43
1987 128.24
1988 128.61
1989 128.98
1990 129.35
1991 129.71
1992 130.08
1993 127.37
1994 124.65
1995 121.94
1996 119.23
1997 116.51
1998 115.73
1999 114.94
2000 114.16
2001 113.37
2002 112.58
2003 110.82
2004 109.06
2005 107.29
2006 105.53
2007 103.77
2008 102.37
2009 100.98
2010 99.58
2011 98.18
2012 96.79
2013 96.32
2014 95.84
2015 95.37
2016 94.90
2017 94.43
2018 93.51
2019 92.58
2020 91.65

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