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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Zimbabwe was 365.25 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 753.70 in 2002 and a minimum value of 284.32 in 1982.

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 361.75
1961 358.00
1962 354.26
1963 351.08
1964 347.90
1965 344.72
1966 341.54
1967 338.36
1968 335.16
1969 331.96
1970 328.77
1971 325.57
1972 322.37
1973 318.35
1974 314.34
1975 310.33
1976 306.32
1977 302.30
1978 298.71
1979 295.11
1980 291.51
1981 287.92
1982 284.32
1983 297.11
1984 309.91
1985 322.71
1986 335.50
1987 348.30
1988 384.00
1989 419.71
1990 455.41
1991 491.12
1992 526.82
1993 560.65
1994 594.48
1995 628.31
1996 662.14
1997 695.97
1998 707.52
1999 719.06
2000 730.61
2001 742.15
2002 753.70
2003 735.33
2004 716.97
2005 698.60
2006 680.24
2007 661.88
2008 619.16
2009 576.45
2010 533.73
2011 491.02
2012 448.30
2013 431.13
2014 413.96
2015 396.79
2016 379.62
2017 362.45
2018 373.21
2019 369.23
2020 365.25

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