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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Sierra Leone was 384.79 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 589.05 in 1997 and a minimum value of 384.79 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 544.60
1961 541.38
1962 538.17
1963 533.75
1964 529.33
1965 524.91
1966 520.49
1967 516.06
1968 504.01
1969 491.96
1970 479.91
1971 467.86
1972 455.81
1973 454.16
1974 452.51
1975 450.86
1976 449.21
1977 447.56
1978 448.65
1979 449.73
1980 450.82
1981 451.91
1982 453.00
1983 462.46
1984 471.91
1985 481.37
1986 490.82
1987 500.28
1988 514.59
1989 528.90
1990 543.21
1991 557.52
1992 571.83
1993 575.27
1994 578.72
1995 582.16
1996 585.61
1997 589.05
1998 576.30
1999 563.55
2000 550.80
2001 538.05
2002 525.30
2003 511.26
2004 497.21
2005 483.17
2006 469.12
2007 455.08
2008 446.68
2009 438.28
2010 429.88
2011 421.47
2012 413.07
2013 409.65
2014 406.22
2015 402.80
2016 399.37
2017 395.94
2018 392.26
2019 388.53
2020 384.79

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