Upper middle income - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Upper middle income was 73.54 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 312.27 in 1960 and a minimum value of 73.54 in 2020.

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 312.27
1961 308.72
1962 306.08
1963 291.47
1964 276.47
1965 262.26
1966 248.07
1967 233.79
1968 223.23
1969 213.10
1970 202.30
1971 191.24
1972 180.36
1973 175.01
1974 169.85
1975 165.05
1976 159.98
1977 154.63
1978 152.06
1979 149.40
1980 146.69
1981 143.45
1982 140.18
1983 137.46
1984 134.81
1985 131.23
1986 126.81
1987 123.69
1988 122.45
1989 121.46
1990 120.44
1991 119.41
1992 119.11
1993 120.22
1994 120.29
1995 118.34
1996 115.87
1997 113.81
1998 112.53
1999 112.45
2000 111.97
2001 111.36
2002 110.78
2003 109.52
2004 107.64
2005 106.11
2006 103.54
2007 101.36
2008 98.71
2009 95.71
2010 93.06
2011 90.10
2012 87.12
2013 85.17
2014 83.49
2015 79.25
2016 77.49
2017 75.71
2018 75.14
2019 74.33
2020 73.54

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