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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in New Zealand was 52.51 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 118.95 in 1967 and a minimum value of 52.51 in 2013.

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 114.70
1961 116.91
1962 113.19
1963 117.03
1964 116.14
1965 118.21
1966 116.09
1967 118.95
1968 117.75
1969 117.02
1970 118.37
1971 115.53
1972 111.66
1973 111.07
1974 115.17
1975 107.58
1976 112.39
1977 113.95
1978 108.50
1979 102.27
1980 108.07
1981 99.83
1982 104.96
1983 95.00
1984 93.45
1985 97.38
1986 93.88
1987 96.59
1988 88.77
1989 89.47
1990 93.16
1991 85.34
1992 79.59
1993 81.65
1994 76.84
1995 80.84
1996 77.13
1997 76.66
1998 71.38
1999 70.40
2000 67.09
2001 64.11
2002 64.57
2003 64.71
2004 62.96
2005 59.60
2006 59.43
2007 58.43
2008 58.29
2009 56.59
2010 54.40
2011 55.59
2012 53.04
2013 52.51

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