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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Samoa was 136.01 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 526.23 in 1960 and a minimum value of 134.39 in 2017.

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 526.23
1961 518.79
1962 511.35
1963 503.74
1964 496.14
1965 488.53
1966 480.92
1967 473.31
1968 465.54
1969 457.78
1970 450.01
1971 442.24
1972 434.48
1973 426.58
1974 418.69
1975 410.79
1976 402.90
1977 395.00
1978 387.01
1979 379.01
1980 371.02
1981 363.02
1982 355.03
1983 346.99
1984 338.94
1985 330.90
1986 322.85
1987 314.81
1988 306.45
1989 298.10
1990 289.75
1991 281.39
1992 273.04
1993 265.74
1994 258.43
1995 251.13
1996 243.83
1997 236.53
1998 231.09
1999 225.65
2000 220.21
2001 214.77
2002 209.33
2003 203.36
2004 197.38
2005 191.41
2006 185.44
2007 179.47
2008 173.76
2009 168.05
2010 162.34
2011 156.62
2012 150.91
2013 147.61
2014 144.30
2015 141.00
2016 137.69
2017 134.39
2018 138.24
2019 137.13
2020 136.01

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