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

The value for Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in Afghanistan was 230.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 604.60 in 1960 and a minimum value of 230.21 in 2020.

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 604.60
1961 598.91
1962 593.22
1963 587.75
1964 582.28
1965 576.82
1966 571.35
1967 565.88
1968 560.33
1969 554.78
1970 549.24
1971 543.69
1972 538.14
1973 531.89
1974 525.64
1975 519.39
1976 513.14
1977 506.89
1978 499.25
1979 491.60
1980 483.95
1981 476.31
1982 468.66
1983 459.36
1984 450.07
1985 440.77
1986 431.48
1987 422.18
1988 413.48
1989 404.78
1990 396.09
1991 387.39
1992 378.69
1993 373.41
1994 368.13
1995 362.84
1996 357.56
1997 352.28
1998 346.14
1999 340.01
2000 333.88
2001 327.74
2002 321.61
2003 314.53
2004 307.46
2005 300.39
2006 293.31
2007 286.24
2008 281.26
2009 276.28
2010 271.30
2011 266.32
2012 261.34
2013 257.14
2014 252.93
2015 248.72
2016 244.52
2017 240.31
2018 237.55
2019 233.88
2020 230.21

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