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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in United States was 137.71 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 240.99 in 1968 and a minimum value of 131.27 in 2013.

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 233.29
1961 226.70
1962 229.82
1963 233.56
1964 232.28
1965 233.01
1966 236.64
1967 234.86
1968 240.99
1969 239.49
1970 236.99
1971 232.15
1972 232.03
1973 228.49
1974 219.82
1975 212.74
1976 206.65
1977 202.60
1978 199.00
1979 195.12
1980 194.96
1981 190.25
1982 183.15
1983 179.71
1984 177.94
1985 178.09
1986 177.92
1987 176.20
1988 176.24
1989 174.80
1990 172.06
1991 170.61
1992 168.46
1993 170.26
1994 169.03
1995 166.96
1996 158.01
1997 149.44
1998 145.51
1999 144.77
2000 143.93
2001 144.31
2002 144.38
2003 143.91
2004 140.56
2005 141.97
2006 141.12
2007 138.61
2008 136.81
2009 134.97
2010 131.88
2011 132.14
2012 131.36
2013 131.27
2014 131.89
2015 134.32
2016 138.53
2017 139.25
2018 137.58
2019 137.71

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