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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Somalia was 263.83 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 455.00 in 1960 and a minimum value of 263.83 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 455.00
1961 450.50
1962 445.99
1963 441.52
1964 437.04
1965 432.57
1966 428.09
1967 423.62
1968 419.37
1969 415.12
1970 410.87
1971 406.62
1972 402.37
1973 398.42
1974 394.48
1975 390.54
1976 386.60
1977 382.66
1978 379.27
1979 375.88
1980 372.49
1981 369.10
1982 365.71
1983 364.25
1984 362.79
1985 361.33
1986 359.87
1987 358.41
1988 361.99
1989 365.56
1990 369.14
1991 372.72
1992 376.29
1993 367.95
1994 359.60
1995 351.26
1996 342.92
1997 334.57
1998 331.99
1999 329.40
2000 326.81
2001 324.22
2002 321.64
2003 318.52
2004 315.40
2005 312.28
2006 309.16
2007 306.04
2008 303.09
2009 300.14
2010 297.18
2011 294.23
2012 291.28
2013 287.48
2014 283.69
2015 279.89
2016 276.10
2017 272.31
2018 269.47
2019 266.65
2020 263.83

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