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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Sri Lanka was 54.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 206.39 in 1960 and a minimum value of 54.55 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 206.39
1961 204.98
1962 203.57
1963 198.50
1964 193.42
1965 188.35
1966 183.27
1967 178.20
1968 175.94
1969 173.68
1970 171.43
1971 169.17
1972 166.91
1973 164.57
1974 162.23
1975 159.89
1976 157.55
1977 155.20
1978 149.54
1979 143.88
1980 138.22
1981 132.56
1982 126.89
1983 126.68
1984 126.47
1985 126.25
1986 126.04
1987 125.83
1988 124.15
1989 122.48
1990 120.81
1991 119.13
1992 117.46
1993 118.30
1994 119.13
1995 119.96
1996 120.80
1997 121.63
1998 113.29
1999 104.95
2000 96.61
2001 88.27
2002 79.93
2003 78.21
2004 76.48
2005 74.75
2006 73.02
2007 71.30
2008 69.76
2009 68.23
2010 66.69
2011 65.16
2012 63.62
2013 62.26
2014 60.90
2015 59.54
2016 58.18
2017 56.82
2018 56.07
2019 55.31
2020 54.55

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