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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Papua New Guinea was 182.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 517.83 in 1960 and a minimum value of 182.41 in 2020.

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 517.83
1961 512.33
1962 506.84
1963 495.02
1964 483.20
1965 471.39
1966 459.57
1967 447.75
1968 438.92
1969 430.08
1970 421.25
1971 412.41
1972 403.58
1973 393.94
1974 384.31
1975 374.67
1976 365.04
1977 355.40
1978 341.72
1979 328.04
1980 314.35
1981 300.67
1982 286.99
1983 286.49
1984 285.98
1985 285.48
1986 284.98
1987 284.47
1988 279.50
1989 274.53
1990 269.55
1991 264.58
1992 259.61
1993 257.46
1994 255.31
1995 253.16
1996 251.01
1997 248.87
1998 245.40
1999 241.93
2000 238.46
2001 234.99
2002 231.52
2003 226.93
2004 222.33
2005 217.74
2006 213.15
2007 208.55
2008 206.57
2009 204.58
2010 202.59
2011 200.60
2012 198.61
2013 196.72
2014 194.83
2015 192.94
2016 191.05
2017 189.16
2018 187.70
2019 185.06
2020 182.41

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