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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Vietnam was 186.35 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 399.62 in 1972 and a minimum value of 178.38 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 290.19
1961 283.51
1962 276.82
1963 276.84
1964 276.85
1965 276.86
1966 276.88
1967 276.89
1968 301.44
1969 325.98
1970 350.53
1971 375.08
1972 399.62
1973 369.64
1974 339.66
1975 309.68
1976 279.70
1977 249.72
1978 245.98
1979 242.25
1980 238.51
1981 234.77
1982 231.04
1983 228.21
1984 225.38
1985 222.56
1986 219.73
1987 216.91
1988 214.98
1989 213.05
1990 211.12
1991 209.20
1992 207.27
1993 206.29
1994 205.30
1995 204.32
1996 203.33
1997 202.35
1998 201.72
1999 201.09
2000 200.47
2001 199.84
2002 199.21
2003 199.10
2004 199.00
2005 198.89
2006 198.78
2007 198.68
2008 196.76
2009 194.84
2010 192.92
2011 191.00
2012 189.08
2013 186.94
2014 184.80
2015 182.66
2016 180.52
2017 178.38
2018 188.58
2019 187.47
2020 186.35

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