West Bank and Gaza - Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)

The value for Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in West Bank and Gaza was 89.16 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 156.53 in 1990 and a minimum value of 89.16 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
1990 156.53
1991 152.13
1992 147.73
1993 144.32
1994 140.90
1995 137.49
1996 134.07
1997 130.66
1998 128.03
1999 125.39
2000 122.76
2001 120.13
2002 117.50
2003 115.36
2004 113.22
2005 111.08
2006 108.94
2007 106.80
2008 105.38
2009 103.96
2010 102.55
2011 101.13
2012 99.72
2013 98.55
2014 97.38
2015 96.22
2016 95.05
2017 93.88
2018 92.31
2019 90.73
2020 89.16

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