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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955

1955, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 606.239; Norway is lowest, at 118.390. The middle country reads 331.697. Against 1954, 222 values changed (14 up, 208 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1955

HighestAfghanistan

606.239

LowestNorway

118.390

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), 1955, 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), 1955: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia606.239576.64629.431
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia600.221564.09634.168
3BhutanBTNSouthern Asia540.949511.53567.345
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa529.085465.01584.565
5Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia510.536504.69516.278
6EritreaERIEastern Africa505.607475.70536.529
7Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa500.435468.21532.026
8OmanOMNWestern Asia498.826419.94567.485
9MaliMLIWestern Africa493.768458.66525.773
10AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa492.238395.64572.081
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa489.319479.84499.573
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa487.697452.05520.176
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia485.779473.21498.574
14NigerNERWestern Africa483.667463.84509.861
15MadagascarMDGEastern Africa482.730459.89504.077
16Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia482.602421.13522.886
17MoroccoMARNorthern Africa476.723449.44504.094
18Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia474.520402.77523.039
19GuatemalaGTMCentral America472.777469.43476.105
20Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa471.906443.13501.113
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa470.165436.17503.896
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa469.917396.41539.568
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa467.436438.97491.168
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa462.550434.80490.674
25LibyaLBYNorthern Africa461.394387.89524.470

02In 1955

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan606.239
  2. 2Timor-Leste600.221
  3. 3Bhutan540.949
  4. 4South Sudan529.085
  5. 5Cook Islands510.536

Lowest

  1. 222Norway118.390
  2. 221Netherlands120.289
  3. 220Sweden126.651
  4. 219Iceland128.575
  5. 218Denmark131.708

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 331.697. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestAfghanistan576.64

    LowestIceland85.02

    Middle country: 289.34

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

    HighestTimor-Leste634.168

    LowestNetherlands142.892

    Middle country: 372.896

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 14 · 208rose · 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 1955.

  • 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 (1955). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1955

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955?

Afghanistan, at 606.239, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955 describe?

1955.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1955?

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), 1955 the newest?

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

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