St. Lucia - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in St. Lucia was 95.10 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 229.73 in 1967 and a minimum value of 95.10 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 215.40
1961 215.40
1962 215.41
1963 218.27
1964 221.13
1965 224.00
1966 226.86
1967 229.73
1968 223.47
1969 217.20
1970 210.94
1971 204.68
1972 198.41
1973 193.05
1974 187.68
1975 182.31
1976 176.94
1977 171.57
1978 165.92
1979 160.27
1980 154.63
1981 148.98
1982 143.33
1983 144.21
1984 145.08
1985 145.96
1986 146.84
1987 147.71
1988 148.26
1989 148.81
1990 149.36
1991 149.92
1992 150.47
1993 152.56
1994 154.66
1995 156.76
1996 158.85
1997 160.95
1998 158.22
1999 155.49
2000 152.76
2001 150.02
2002 147.29
2003 142.01
2004 136.73
2005 131.44
2006 126.16
2007 120.88
2008 119.10
2009 117.33
2010 115.55
2011 113.77
2012 112.00
2013 110.60
2014 109.20
2015 107.80
2016 106.41
2017 105.01
2018 97.19
2019 96.14
2020 95.10

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