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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Namibia was 337.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 522.94 in 2002 and a minimum value of 301.03 in 1987.

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 442.45
1961 435.05
1962 427.65
1963 421.26
1964 414.87
1965 408.49
1966 402.10
1967 395.71
1968 393.31
1969 390.90
1970 388.49
1971 386.08
1972 383.67
1973 376.76
1974 369.84
1975 362.93
1976 356.01
1977 349.10
1978 345.67
1979 342.25
1980 338.83
1981 335.40
1982 331.98
1983 325.79
1984 319.60
1985 313.41
1986 307.22
1987 301.03
1988 303.51
1989 306.00
1990 308.49
1991 310.98
1992 313.47
1993 333.88
1994 354.30
1995 374.71
1996 395.13
1997 415.54
1998 437.02
1999 458.50
2000 479.98
2001 501.46
2002 522.94
2003 522.40
2004 521.87
2005 521.34
2006 520.81
2007 520.28
2008 495.20
2009 470.13
2010 445.06
2011 419.99
2012 394.92
2013 383.45
2014 371.99
2015 360.52
2016 349.06
2017 337.59
2018 349.32
2019 343.64
2020 337.97

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