Puerto Rico - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Puerto Rico was 61.53 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 136.12 in 1960 and a minimum value of 61.53 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 136.12
1961 132.92
1962 129.72
1963 127.17
1964 124.62
1965 122.07
1966 119.51
1967 116.96
1968 114.35
1969 111.75
1970 109.14
1971 106.54
1972 103.93
1973 103.08
1974 102.23
1975 101.38
1976 100.52
1977 99.67
1978 99.33
1979 98.99
1980 98.66
1981 98.32
1982 97.98
1983 95.88
1984 93.78
1985 91.68
1986 89.58
1987 87.48
1988 87.10
1989 86.72
1990 86.33
1991 85.95
1992 85.57
1993 84.63
1994 83.70
1995 82.76
1996 81.82
1997 80.89
1998 79.15
1999 77.42
2000 75.68
2001 73.95
2002 72.21
2003 71.68
2004 71.16
2005 70.63
2006 70.10
2007 69.58
2008 69.05
2009 68.52
2010 67.99
2011 67.46
2012 66.93
2013 66.30
2014 65.67
2015 65.04
2016 64.41
2017 63.78
2018 63.03
2019 62.28
2020 61.53

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