The Gambia - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in The Gambia was 216.33 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 514.09 in 1960 and a minimum value of 216.33 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 514.09
1961 510.90
1962 507.71
1963 503.21
1964 498.71
1965 494.21
1966 489.71
1967 485.21
1968 473.63
1969 462.05
1970 450.47
1971 438.90
1972 427.32
1973 416.87
1974 406.43
1975 395.99
1976 385.54
1977 375.10
1978 365.88
1979 356.66
1980 347.44
1981 338.22
1982 329.01
1983 322.24
1984 315.47
1985 308.71
1986 301.94
1987 295.18
1988 294.31
1989 293.44
1990 292.57
1991 291.70
1992 290.83
1993 288.79
1994 286.75
1995 284.71
1996 282.68
1997 280.64
1998 278.79
1999 276.94
2000 275.09
2001 273.24
2002 271.39
2003 268.23
2004 265.08
2005 261.92
2006 258.77
2007 255.61
2008 253.09
2009 250.57
2010 248.05
2011 245.52
2012 243.00
2013 240.08
2014 237.16
2015 234.24
2016 231.31
2017 228.39
2018 224.41
2019 220.37
2020 216.33

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