Sierra Leone - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Sierra Leone was 345.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 543.76 in 1997 and a minimum value of 345.44 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 531.89
1961 529.71
1962 527.53
1963 524.13
1964 520.73
1965 517.32
1966 513.92
1967 510.52
1968 507.40
1969 504.28
1970 501.16
1971 498.05
1972 494.93
1973 487.90
1974 480.86
1975 473.83
1976 466.79
1977 459.76
1978 459.57
1979 459.38
1980 459.19
1981 459.00
1982 458.81
1983 466.15
1984 473.48
1985 480.82
1986 488.15
1987 495.49
1988 503.80
1989 512.12
1990 520.44
1991 528.76
1992 537.07
1993 538.41
1994 539.75
1995 541.08
1996 542.42
1997 543.76
1998 533.12
1999 522.49
2000 511.85
2001 501.21
2002 490.58
2003 480.46
2004 470.35
2005 460.23
2006 450.12
2007 440.01
2008 433.45
2009 426.89
2010 420.33
2011 413.77
2012 407.21
2013 402.46
2014 397.70
2015 392.95
2016 388.19
2017 383.44
2018 353.35
2019 349.39
2020 345.44

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