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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Tanzania was 242.97 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 499.02 in 1997 and a minimum value of 229.70 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 443.44
1961 440.60
1962 437.77
1963 434.36
1964 430.95
1965 427.54
1966 424.13
1967 420.72
1968 416.89
1969 413.06
1970 409.23
1971 405.40
1972 401.57
1973 397.59
1974 393.61
1975 389.63
1976 385.64
1977 381.66
1978 381.66
1979 381.66
1980 381.66
1981 381.66
1982 381.66
1983 386.34
1984 391.03
1985 395.72
1986 400.41
1987 405.10
1988 416.60
1989 428.11
1990 439.61
1991 451.11
1992 462.62
1993 469.90
1994 477.18
1995 484.46
1996 491.74
1997 499.02
1998 495.02
1999 491.03
2000 487.03
2001 483.03
2002 479.03
2003 459.80
2004 440.56
2005 421.32
2006 402.09
2007 382.85
2008 371.46
2009 360.07
2010 348.68
2011 337.29
2012 325.89
2013 306.66
2014 287.42
2015 268.18
2016 248.94
2017 229.70
2018 249.80
2019 246.38
2020 242.97

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