São Tomé and Principe - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in São Tomé and Principe was 121.23 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 316.08 in 1960 and a minimum value of 121.23 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 316.08
1961 310.54
1962 305.00
1963 300.32
1964 295.63
1965 290.94
1966 286.25
1967 281.57
1968 276.75
1969 271.93
1970 267.12
1971 262.30
1972 257.49
1973 251.95
1974 246.41
1975 240.87
1976 235.34
1977 229.80
1978 228.01
1979 226.21
1980 224.42
1981 222.63
1982 220.83
1983 219.34
1984 217.84
1985 216.35
1986 214.85
1987 213.36
1988 211.87
1989 210.38
1990 208.89
1991 207.40
1992 205.91
1993 204.45
1994 202.99
1995 201.53
1996 200.07
1997 198.61
1998 197.20
1999 195.78
2000 194.37
2001 192.96
2002 191.55
2003 188.34
2004 185.14
2005 181.93
2006 178.72
2007 175.52
2008 174.01
2009 172.50
2010 170.99
2011 169.47
2012 167.96
2013 166.53
2014 165.09
2015 163.65
2016 162.21
2017 160.77
2018 124.40
2019 122.81
2020 121.23

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