Abbreviated Name:
Adult mortality rate between 15 and 60 years of age.
Indicator Name:
Adult mortality rate (probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population)
Domain:
Health status / Life expectancy and mortality
Related Terms:
Mortality by cause/ major causes, age-specific mortality rate
Definition:
Probability that a 15 year old person will die before reaching his/her 60th birthday. The probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60 years (per 1 000 population) per year among a hypothetical cohort of 100,000 people that would experience the age-specific mortality rate of the reporting year.
Measurment Method:
Civil or sample registration: Mortality by age and gender are used to calculate age specific rates. Census: Mortality by age and gender tabulated from questions on recent deaths that occurred in the household during a given period preceding the census (usually 12 months). Census or surveys: Direct or indirect methods provide adult mortality rates based on information on survival of parents or siblings.
Numerator:
Number of deaths at ages 15 to 59 years (by major cause of death)
Denominator
Number of years of exposure to the risk of death between ages 15 and 59 years.
Estimation method:
Adult mortality rates are derived from life tables which draw on UN World Population Prospects revision, recent and unpublished analyses of all-cause and HIV mortality for countries with high HIV prevalence, vital registration data, and estimates of child mortality from UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. More detailed methods are available from the link below (WHO life table methods). Predominant type of statistics: predicted
Disaggregation:
Age, gender, location (urban / rural), education level, wealth quintile, boundaries: administrative and health regions; cause of death.
Primary data sources:
Civil registration with high coverage and reliable data of death registeration by cause of death using ICD
Alternate data sources:
Household surveys, population census, sample or sentinel registration systems
Measurment frequency:
Annual if based on preferred data source; otherwise less frequent
