United Kingdom - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in United Kingdom was 54.58 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 111.37 in 1963 and a minimum value of 53.08 in 2017.

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 109.37
1961 110.91
1962 110.50
1963 111.37
1964 107.74
1965 108.28
1966 108.54
1967 104.59
1968 106.32
1969 109.38
1970 106.88
1971 105.40
1972 107.62
1973 105.54
1974 104.66
1975 102.73
1976 103.04
1977 99.98
1978 101.77
1979 100.47
1980 96.53
1981 94.26
1982 92.50
1983 90.34
1984 88.44
1985 87.05
1986 84.42
1987 83.52
1988 81.77
1989 80.43
1990 78.12
1991 75.84
1992 74.16
1993 74.27
1994 71.99
1995 72.51
1996 71.24
1997 69.78
1998 69.21
1999 68.32
2000 67.60
2001 65.77
2002 64.84
2003 64.55
2004 62.08
2005 61.57
2006 60.82
2007 60.01
2008 60.10
2009 58.13
2010 57.45
2011 55.74
2012 54.36
2013 53.89
2014 53.64
2015 54.08
2016 55.14
2017 53.08
2018 54.58

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