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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in United States was 79.67 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 130.82 in 1968 and a minimum value of 77.16 in 2010.

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 130.63
1961 126.61
1962 128.62
1963 130.30
1964 129.10
1965 128.62
1966 128.74
1967 127.48
1968 130.82
1969 128.86
1970 128.47
1971 125.89
1972 124.31
1973 122.92
1974 117.15
1975 112.93
1976 110.08
1977 107.66
1978 105.87
1979 102.07
1980 102.56
1981 100.87
1982 97.53
1983 97.09
1984 96.12
1985 95.53
1986 94.58
1987 94.29
1988 94.40
1989 92.52
1990 90.87
1991 90.65
1992 88.98
1993 90.07
1994 89.52
1995 89.37
1996 87.12
1997 85.40
1998 83.56
1999 83.80
2000 83.36
2001 84.17
2002 83.72
2003 83.56
2004 81.47
2005 81.51
2006 80.93
2007 79.45
2008 78.71
2009 79.06
2010 77.16
2011 77.93
2012 77.72
2013 78.09
2014 79.38
2015 80.43
2016 82.12
2017 82.00
2018 80.61
2019 79.67

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