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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Uruguay was 135.92 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 226.93 in 1960 and a minimum value of 131.87 in 2017.

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 226.93
1961 223.50
1962 220.07
1963 219.74
1964 219.40
1965 219.07
1966 218.74
1967 218.40
1968 218.06
1969 217.71
1970 217.37
1971 217.02
1972 216.68
1973 215.62
1974 214.55
1975 213.49
1976 212.43
1977 211.36
1978 209.48
1979 207.60
1980 205.73
1981 203.85
1982 201.97
1983 201.82
1984 201.66
1985 201.51
1986 201.36
1987 201.21
1988 199.60
1989 197.99
1990 196.38
1991 194.78
1992 193.17
1993 190.04
1994 186.90
1995 183.77
1996 180.64
1997 177.51
1998 173.77
1999 170.02
2000 166.28
2001 162.54
2002 158.80
2003 156.61
2004 154.42
2005 152.23
2006 150.04
2007 147.85
2008 146.22
2009 144.59
2010 142.96
2011 141.34
2012 139.71
2013 138.14
2014 136.57
2015 135.01
2016 133.44
2017 131.87
2018 139.32
2019 137.62
2020 135.92

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