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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Puerto Rico was 141.87 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 240.65 in 1962 and a minimum value of 141.87 in 2020.

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 239.97
1961 240.31
1962 240.65
1963 239.78
1964 238.90
1965 238.03
1966 237.16
1967 236.28
1968 235.43
1969 234.58
1970 233.73
1971 232.88
1972 232.03
1973 228.84
1974 225.65
1975 222.46
1976 219.27
1977 216.08
1978 215.40
1979 214.72
1980 214.03
1981 213.35
1982 212.67
1983 213.02
1984 213.36
1985 213.71
1986 214.06
1987 214.40
1988 219.65
1989 224.89
1990 230.14
1991 235.38
1992 240.62
1993 237.25
1994 233.87
1995 230.49
1996 227.11
1997 223.73
1998 216.28
1999 208.84
2000 201.39
2001 193.95
2002 186.51
2003 183.43
2004 180.36
2005 177.29
2006 174.22
2007 171.15
2008 168.02
2009 164.89
2010 161.77
2011 158.64
2012 155.52
2013 154.09
2014 152.66
2015 151.23
2016 149.80
2017 148.38
2018 146.21
2019 144.04
2020 141.87

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