Small states - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Small states was 162.61 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 274.40 in 1960 and a minimum value of 160.99 in 2019.

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 274.40
1961 270.75
1962 266.77
1963 263.43
1964 260.00
1965 256.75
1966 254.65
1967 250.79
1968 248.97
1969 245.79
1970 242.35
1971 238.74
1972 235.45
1973 232.04
1974 229.26
1975 226.53
1976 223.58
1977 221.19
1978 216.85
1979 213.57
1980 209.14
1981 205.74
1982 201.90
1983 199.14
1984 197.20
1985 194.60
1986 191.41
1987 188.81
1988 189.07
1989 189.90
1990 189.48
1991 189.52
1992 188.87
1993 195.98
1994 203.98
1995 208.64
1996 213.87
1997 220.36
1998 226.97
1999 232.86
2000 239.18
2001 245.03
2002 249.89
2003 244.56
2004 239.02
2005 233.84
2006 228.43
2007 222.90
2008 214.25
2009 205.81
2010 197.35
2011 189.67
2012 181.68
2013 178.19
2014 174.71
2015 171.20
2016 167.83
2017 163.89
2018 161.71
2019 160.99
2020 162.61

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