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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Sri Lanka was 147.23 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 290.76 in 1960 and a minimum value of 147.23 in 2020.

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 290.76
1961 289.09
1962 287.41
1963 281.62
1964 275.83
1965 270.03
1966 264.24
1967 258.45
1968 255.06
1969 251.68
1970 248.30
1971 244.91
1972 241.53
1973 238.76
1974 236.00
1975 233.23
1976 230.46
1977 227.70
1978 226.49
1979 225.28
1980 224.07
1981 222.86
1982 221.65
1983 231.45
1984 241.25
1985 251.05
1986 260.85
1987 270.65
1988 266.74
1989 262.83
1990 258.93
1991 255.02
1992 251.11
1993 257.80
1994 264.48
1995 271.17
1996 277.85
1997 284.54
1998 267.67
1999 250.80
2000 233.93
2001 217.05
2002 200.18
2003 196.75
2004 193.31
2005 189.88
2006 186.44
2007 183.01
2008 179.88
2009 176.75
2010 173.62
2011 170.49
2012 167.36
2013 164.51
2014 161.66
2015 158.82
2016 155.97
2017 153.13
2018 151.16
2019 149.19
2020 147.23

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