Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1956

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1956: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.

Positionderived	Country	Probability of dying between ages 15 and 60, both sexes (deaths per 1,000 alive at 15)	Women (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)	Men (deaths between 15 and 60 per 1,000 alive at 15)
1	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	600.47	570.92	623.83
2	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	596.67	560.23	630.58
3	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	542.82	473.84	602.17
4	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	539.72	510.25	566.09
5	EritreaERIEastern Africa	502.22	471.38	533.97
6	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	497.09	452.76	526.98
7	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	495.69	464.37	526.52
8	OmanOMNWestern Asia	494.18	416.29	562.60
9	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	494.11	398.98	573.44
10	MaliMLIWestern Africa	492.80	458.69	524.04
11	Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia	487.31	484.88	490.57
12	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	487.07	476.49	498.38
13	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	484.50	472.00	497.19
14	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	483.28	447.96	515.37
15	NigerNERWestern Africa	482.55	462.09	508.99
16	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	477.20	452.99	499.42
17	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	471.62	444.88	498.54
18	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	470.81	441.74	500.28
19	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	469.52	436.27	502.55
20	Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia	468.07	397.65	516.52
21	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	466.41	393.09	535.73
22	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	466.23	462.94	469.61
23	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	465.24	436.51	489.50
24	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	458.48	453.10	462.87
25	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	457.16	425.01	490.23

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 325.86. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

  HighestAfghanistan570.92

  LowestNorway87.55

  Middle country: 282.21

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

  HighestTimor-Leste630.58

  LowestNorway139.20

  Middle country: 367.76

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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.

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