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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951

1951, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. North Korea is highest, at 935.368; Netherlands is lowest, at 127.703. The middle country reads 366.910. Against 1950, 222 values changed (25 up, 197 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1951

HighestNorth Korea

935.368

LowestNetherlands

127.703

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), 1951, 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), 1951: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1North KoreaPRKEastern Asia935.368721.09991.9270
2South KoreaKOREastern Asia813.245458.71938.4616
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia628.319599.70649.7768
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia614.379579.32648.2676
5Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia610.850599.29618.1249
6Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia576.611517.01614.7892
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa545.888473.77605.0409
8BhutanBTNSouthern Asia543.072513.81569.5749
9GreenlandGRLNorthern America526.731520.32534.3514
10Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa520.953486.81554.0101
11EritreaERIEastern Africa517.026488.63546.7129
12OmanOMNWestern Asia514.159431.10583.6017
13Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia509.037442.65548.9813
14ComorosCOMEastern Africa508.631485.41531.7822
15VanuatuVUTMelanesia508.385484.25519.4933
16Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa506.618468.07542.0181
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa506.542485.37528.0377
18GuatemalaGTMCentral America500.180496.46503.4054
19MadagascarMDGEastern Africa499.301481.19517.3208
20MaliMLIWestern Africa498.479464.43529.1112
21CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia497.023486.87507.6326
22MoroccoMARNorthern Africa495.931467.19524.1510
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa495.453486.31505.5842
24ChadTCDMiddle Africa491.768447.58535.5014
25MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia485.242455.99514.2466

02In 1951

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1North Korea935.368
  2. 2South Korea813.245
  3. 3Afghanistan628.319
  4. 4Timor-Leste614.379
  5. 5Cook Islands610.850

Lowest

  1. 222Netherlands127.703
  2. 221Norway128.349
  3. 220Sweden138.643
  4. 219Denmark140.829
  5. 218San Marino141.692

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 366.910. “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 Korea721.09

    LowestSan Marino95.14

    Middle country: 318.18

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

    HighestNorth Korea991.9270

    LowestNetherlands145.0914

    Middle country: 402.6147

031950 → 1951

Since 1950

What changed between 1950 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 25 · 197rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1951.

  • 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.

05The 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 (1951). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951 [data set], describing 1951. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1951

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951?

North Korea, at 935.368, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951 describe?

1951.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1951?

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), 1951 the newest?

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

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