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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in North America was 76.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 128.82 in 1960 and a minimum value of 74.66 in 2010.

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 128.82
1961 124.86
1962 126.83
1963 128.23
1964 126.91
1965 126.54
1966 126.54
1967 125.34
1968 128.29
1969 126.54
1970 126.06
1971 123.30
1972 122.07
1973 120.76
1974 115.29
1975 111.35
1976 108.28
1977 106.17
1978 104.17
1979 100.80
1980 100.95
1981 99.22
1982 95.99
1983 95.24
1984 94.15
1985 93.71
1986 92.65
1987 92.28
1988 92.16
1989 90.40
1990 88.70
1991 88.44
1992 86.88
1993 87.75
1994 87.28
1995 87.08
1996 84.98
1997 83.15
1998 81.45
1999 81.56
2000 81.11
2001 81.67
2002 81.27
2003 81.00
2004 79.00
2005 79.04
2006 78.39
2007 77.02
2008 76.39
2009 76.58
2010 74.66
2011 75.35
2012 75.13
2013 75.31
2014 76.51
2015 77.38
2016 78.98
2017 78.79
2018 77.45
2019 76.50

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