Dataset · UN DESA Population Division
Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60)
74 years, 1950–2023 · 222 countries · 3 measures
Adult mortality is the chance that a 15-year-old will die before reaching 60 if the death rates of the year held throughout their adult life, expressed as deaths per 1,000 people alive at 15. It is the working-age counterpart of child mortality, and it captures the deaths that child-centred measures miss: HIV, violence, road crashes, alcohol and the chronic diseases of middle age.
This site holds every year from 1950 to 2023, read from UN DESA Population Division’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · the file
- Newest
- Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2023
- Held
- 74 years · 16,428 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0 IGO
0174 years
Every year
Every year comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 74 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: adult-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
025 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 222 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 222 | 0 | |
Probability of dying between ages 15 and 60, both sexes (deaths per 1,000 alive at 15)adult_mortalityHeadline | The headline figure: Deaths before age 60 per 1,000 people alive at 15, at that year's death rates. | Number · up to 4 decimals | 25.151 Monaco415.441 Lesothomiddle 133.698 | 222 | 0 | |
Women (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)femaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 4 decimals | 18.47 United Arab Emirates361.61Lesothomiddle 92.48 | 222 | 0 | |
Men (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)maleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 4 decimals | 31.218Monaco470.601Lesothomiddle 178.281 | 222 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.
03222 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Asia | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Europe | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 |
| Oceania | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 |
| All | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 | 222 |
The newest 12 of 74 years.
The same 222 countries in every year.
Not in this dataset · 3 places this site covers
UN DESA Population Division gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UN DESA Population Division
2 · Their file
World Population Prospects 2024: probability of dying between ages 15 and 60, 2023
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
74 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as adult-mortality-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 4 decimals, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
From World Population Prospects 2024, read from the Population Division's own CSV download, with the women's and men's figures published beside the headline. Projections are excluded.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked October 3, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.
A credit line
Source: UN DESA Population Division, Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UN DESA Population Division. Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality
The publisher’s own citation: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition.
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Life Expectancy at BirthUN DESA Population Division · 74 held · 1950–2023
- Under-Five Mortality RateUN IGME · 73 held · 1952–2024
- Prevalence of Severe Food InsecurityFAO · 9 held · 2015–2023
07Questions
Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60): questions and answers
What is the Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60)?
Adult mortality is the chance that a 15-year-old will die before reaching 60 if the death rates of the year held throughout their adult life, expressed as deaths per 1,000 people alive at 15. It is the working-age counterpart of child mortality, and it captures the deaths that child-centred measures miss: HIV, violence, road crashes, alcohol and the chronic diseases of middle age.
Which years of the Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) can I download?
All 74, from 1950 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does UN DESA Population Division rank countries on it?
No. UN DESA Population Division publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 3.0 IGO, with credit to UN DESA Population Division. The licence text is linked on this page.