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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Tonga was 211.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 303.88 in 1960 and a minimum value of 163.29 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 303.88
1961 298.41
1962 292.94
1963 288.13
1964 283.32
1965 278.51
1966 273.71
1967 268.90
1968 264.13
1969 259.36
1970 254.59
1971 249.83
1972 245.06
1973 241.91
1974 238.77
1975 235.62
1976 232.47
1977 229.33
1978 226.22
1979 223.11
1980 220.00
1981 216.89
1982 213.77
1983 210.99
1984 208.20
1985 205.41
1986 202.62
1987 199.84
1988 197.98
1989 196.12
1990 194.27
1991 192.41
1992 190.56
1993 189.32
1994 188.09
1995 186.85
1996 185.62
1997 184.38
1998 184.31
1999 184.24
2000 184.17
2001 184.10
2002 184.03
2003 183.33
2004 182.63
2005 181.93
2006 181.23
2007 180.53
2008 178.98
2009 177.44
2010 175.89
2011 174.34
2012 172.80
2013 170.90
2014 168.99
2015 167.09
2016 165.19
2017 163.29
2018 213.56
2019 212.28
2020 211.00

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