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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in New Zealand was 80.56 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 201.30 in 1967 and a minimum value of 80.56 in 2013.

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 182.74
1961 185.47
1962 182.41
1963 184.97
1964 188.59
1965 193.73
1966 195.96
1967 201.30
1968 192.32
1969 190.98
1970 196.79
1971 192.07
1972 186.27
1973 198.37
1974 188.55
1975 185.37
1976 183.62
1977 190.34
1978 180.02
1979 178.50
1980 167.27
1981 170.95
1982 164.31
1983 161.79
1984 157.42
1985 159.00
1986 157.76
1987 158.58
1988 152.32
1989 146.36
1990 142.88
1991 133.53
1992 136.34
1993 129.55
1994 121.75
1995 125.97
1996 122.15
1997 119.56
1998 112.13
1999 111.83
2000 104.31
2001 100.08
2002 100.43
2003 98.59
2004 93.11
2005 94.41
2006 90.17
2007 91.59
2008 87.74
2009 87.30
2010 85.44
2011 84.88
2012 81.99
2013 80.56

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