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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in South Africa was 240.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 470.05 in 2007 and a minimum value of 220.53 in 1992.

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 313.31
1961 309.77
1962 306.24
1963 302.52
1964 298.80
1965 295.09
1966 291.37
1967 287.65
1968 285.83
1969 284.01
1970 282.19
1971 280.37
1972 278.55
1973 278.55
1974 278.55
1975 278.55
1976 278.55
1977 278.55
1978 278.55
1979 278.55
1980 278.55
1981 278.55
1982 278.55
1983 270.35
1984 262.15
1985 253.95
1986 245.76
1987 237.56
1988 234.15
1989 230.75
1990 227.34
1991 223.93
1992 220.53
1993 234.57
1994 248.60
1995 262.64
1996 276.67
1997 290.71
1998 318.75
1999 346.78
2000 374.82
2001 402.86
2002 430.89
2003 438.72
2004 446.55
2005 454.39
2006 462.22
2007 470.05
2008 443.01
2009 415.98
2010 388.94
2011 361.91
2012 334.87
2013 319.59
2014 304.31
2015 289.03
2016 273.75
2017 258.47
2018 248.82
2019 244.90
2020 240.99

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