Virgin Islands - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in Virgin Islands was 39.88 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 174.75 in 1960 and a minimum value of 39.88 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 174.75
1961 171.94
1962 169.13
1963 166.01
1964 162.89
1965 159.77
1966 156.65
1967 153.53
1968 150.19
1969 146.84
1970 143.49
1971 140.15
1972 136.80
1973 133.85
1974 130.89
1975 127.93
1976 124.98
1977 122.02
1978 119.47
1979 116.92
1980 114.36
1981 111.81
1982 109.26
1983 106.41
1984 103.55
1985 100.70
1986 97.84
1987 94.99
1988 92.40
1989 89.82
1990 87.23
1991 84.64
1992 82.06
1993 79.79
1994 77.52
1995 75.25
1996 72.99
1997 70.72
1998 68.93
1999 67.14
2000 65.34
2001 63.55
2002 61.76
2003 60.71
2004 59.65
2005 58.60
2006 57.54
2007 56.49
2008 54.29
2009 52.09
2010 49.90
2011 47.70
2012 45.50
2013 44.76
2014 44.01
2015 43.27
2016 42.52
2017 41.77
2018 41.14
2019 40.51
2020 39.88

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