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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in United Kingdom was 87.15 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 58 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 189.59 in 1963 and a minimum value of 83.91 in 2014.

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 186.21
1961 188.08
1962 187.24
1963 189.59
1964 184.22
1965 183.97
1966 184.22
1967 176.86
1968 179.01
1969 182.49
1970 180.28
1971 176.12
1972 179.24
1973 179.11
1974 176.04
1975 171.31
1976 171.75
1977 166.95
1978 168.41
1979 168.58
1980 161.79
1981 157.79
1982 153.71
1983 149.98
1984 145.22
1985 143.62
1986 141.30
1987 137.50
1988 134.77
1989 130.52
1990 129.27
1991 126.79
1992 122.74
1993 122.62
1994 118.11
1995 118.73
1996 116.98
1997 114.33
1998 113.61
1999 112.40
2000 108.45
2001 107.22
2002 105.90
2003 103.81
2004 99.55
2005 97.44
2006 99.26
2007 97.56
2008 96.72
2009 94.26
2010 91.11
2011 87.29
2012 83.93
2013 85.19
2014 83.91
2015 84.59
2016 85.68
2017 84.62
2018 87.15

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