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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in South Asia was 138.34 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 472.36 in 1960 and a minimum value of 133.31 in 2017.

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 472.36
1961 462.44
1962 452.46
1963 440.14
1964 427.89
1965 415.73
1966 403.58
1967 391.50
1968 379.64
1969 367.80
1970 355.97
1971 344.15
1972 332.34
1973 322.92
1974 313.49
1975 304.04
1976 294.54
1977 285.03
1978 280.11
1979 275.17
1980 270.22
1981 265.24
1982 260.25
1983 257.26
1984 254.29
1985 251.34
1986 248.40
1987 245.49
1988 240.38
1989 235.29
1990 230.23
1991 225.22
1992 220.22
1993 215.89
1994 211.54
1995 207.19
1996 202.80
1997 198.40
1998 195.22
1999 192.04
2000 188.88
2001 185.72
2002 182.58
2003 179.39
2004 176.19
2005 172.99
2006 169.78
2007 166.57
2008 162.35
2009 158.13
2010 153.92
2011 149.72
2012 145.54
2013 143.10
2014 140.67
2015 138.22
2016 135.77
2017 133.31
2018 142.36
2019 140.35
2020 138.34

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