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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Namibia was 238.18 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 480.05 in 2007 and a minimum value of 221.12 in 1987.

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 365.86
1961 359.29
1962 352.72
1963 347.64
1964 342.55
1965 337.47
1966 332.38
1967 327.30
1968 321.52
1969 315.75
1970 309.97
1971 304.20
1972 298.42
1973 291.73
1974 285.03
1975 278.34
1976 271.65
1977 264.95
1978 260.98
1979 257.01
1980 253.03
1981 249.06
1982 245.09
1983 240.30
1984 235.50
1985 230.71
1986 225.91
1987 221.12
1988 221.74
1989 222.35
1990 222.97
1991 223.58
1992 224.20
1993 245.55
1994 266.90
1995 288.24
1996 309.59
1997 330.94
1998 358.01
1999 385.08
2000 412.16
2001 439.23
2002 466.30
2003 469.05
2004 471.80
2005 474.55
2006 477.30
2007 480.05
2008 446.66
2009 413.28
2010 379.89
2011 346.50
2012 313.11
2013 298.88
2014 284.65
2015 270.43
2016 256.20
2017 241.97
2018 248.94
2019 243.56
2020 238.18

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