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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in South Sudan was 344.72 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 580.35 in 1960 and a minimum value of 328.96 in 2017.

Definition: Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 580.35
1961 575.08
1962 569.81
1963 564.58
1964 559.36
1965 554.13
1966 548.91
1967 543.68
1968 539.26
1969 534.85
1970 530.43
1971 526.01
1972 521.59
1973 516.87
1974 512.16
1975 507.44
1976 502.72
1977 498.01
1978 496.30
1979 494.60
1980 492.90
1981 491.19
1982 489.49
1983 484.10
1984 478.70
1985 473.30
1986 467.90
1987 462.51
1988 454.95
1989 447.39
1990 439.83
1991 432.27
1992 424.71
1993 420.83
1994 416.96
1995 413.09
1996 409.22
1997 405.34
1998 404.41
1999 403.47
2000 402.54
2001 401.60
2002 400.66
2003 398.54
2004 396.41
2005 394.29
2006 392.16
2007 390.04
2008 383.43
2009 376.83
2010 370.23
2011 363.63
2012 357.02
2013 351.41
2014 345.80
2015 340.19
2016 334.58
2017 328.96
2018 350.69
2019 347.70
2020 344.72

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