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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950

1950, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. North Korea is highest, at 970.05; Netherlands is lowest, at 128.25. The middle country reads 370.07.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1950

HighestNorth Korea

970.05

LowestNetherlands

128.25

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1North KoreaPRKEastern Asia970.05781.96997.66
2South KoreaKOREastern Asia884.84501.66973.09
3Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia637.65627.94643.52
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia633.78605.33654.86
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia617.94583.15651.79
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa551.34479.42609.68
7GreenlandGRLNorthern America545.05547.20543.45
8BhutanBTNSouthern Asia543.33514.08569.85
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa526.07491.29559.63
10EritreaERIEastern Africa519.27490.60549.26
11TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa517.92498.51537.76
12OmanOMNWestern Asia517.48433.26587.15
13Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia515.17447.83554.90
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa509.79470.41546.07
15GuatemalaGTMCentral America507.17505.54508.31
16Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia505.68423.14558.13
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa502.42480.98523.38
18MoroccoMARNorthern Africa500.63471.70528.89
19MaliMLIWestern Africa499.61466.39529.36
20GambiaGMBWestern Africa498.03489.81507.25
21CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia497.49489.28506.23
22VanuatuVUTMelanesia493.49448.98515.52
23ChadTCDMiddle Africa493.29449.37536.70
24MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia490.43461.08519.50
25TuvaluTUVPolynesia488.73418.12553.91

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1North Korea970.05
  2. 2South Korea884.84
  3. 3Cook Islands637.65
  4. 4Afghanistan633.78
  5. 5Timor-Leste617.94

Lowest

  1. 222Netherlands128.25
  2. 221Norway131.49
  3. 220Israel139.35
  4. 219Sweden141.74
  5. 218San Marino142.43

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 370.07. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Women (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)

    HighestNorth Korea781.96

    LowestSan Marino96.25

    Middle country: 323.21

  • Men (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)

    HighestNorth Korea997.66

    LowestNetherlands143.71

    Middle country: 414.23

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1950.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1950). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1950

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06Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950?

North Korea, at 970.05, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950 describe?

1950.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1950 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2023.

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