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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in South Sudan was 294.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 518.21 in 1960 and a minimum value of 294.65 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 518.21
1961 513.09
1962 507.96
1963 502.91
1964 497.86
1965 492.81
1966 487.76
1967 482.71
1968 478.45
1969 474.20
1970 469.95
1971 465.69
1972 461.44
1973 456.84
1974 452.24
1975 447.64
1976 443.04
1977 438.44
1978 436.90
1979 435.37
1980 433.84
1981 432.30
1982 430.77
1983 425.63
1984 420.50
1985 415.36
1986 410.22
1987 405.09
1988 398.49
1989 391.89
1990 385.30
1991 378.70
1992 372.11
1993 369.35
1994 366.59
1995 363.84
1996 361.08
1997 358.33
1998 359.46
1999 360.58
2000 361.71
2001 362.84
2002 363.97
2003 363.58
2004 363.19
2005 362.80
2006 362.41
2007 362.02
2008 355.45
2009 348.89
2010 342.32
2011 335.76
2012 329.19
2013 324.16
2014 319.12
2015 314.09
2016 309.05
2017 304.02
2018 300.90
2019 297.77
2020 294.65

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