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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in The Gambia was 271.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 578.82 in 1960 and a minimum value of 271.95 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 578.82
1961 575.67
1962 572.52
1963 568.01
1964 563.50
1965 558.98
1966 554.47
1967 549.96
1968 537.93
1969 525.91
1970 513.88
1971 501.85
1972 489.82
1973 478.84
1974 467.85
1975 456.87
1976 445.88
1977 434.90
1978 425.20
1979 415.50
1980 405.80
1981 396.10
1982 386.40
1983 379.23
1984 372.05
1985 364.87
1986 357.70
1987 350.52
1988 349.66
1989 348.80
1990 347.94
1991 347.08
1992 346.22
1993 344.11
1994 342.01
1995 339.91
1996 337.81
1997 335.71
1998 332.59
1999 329.47
2000 326.36
2001 323.24
2002 320.12
2003 317.94
2004 315.76
2005 313.58
2006 311.39
2007 309.21
2008 306.77
2009 304.33
2010 301.89
2011 299.44
2012 297.00
2013 294.39
2014 291.79
2015 289.18
2016 286.57
2017 283.96
2018 279.95
2019 275.95
2020 271.95

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