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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957

1957, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Afghanistan is highest, at 593.792; Norway is lowest, at 115.749. The middle country reads 316.980. Against 1956, 222 values changed (32 up, 190 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1957

HighestAfghanistan

593.792

LowestNorway

115.749

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), 1957, 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), 1957: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
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1AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia593.792564.621617.06
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia592.973556.093626.92
3South SudanSSDEastern Africa565.217497.744623.40
4EritreaERIEastern Africa560.001525.419594.95
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia538.122508.593564.47
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa527.326453.587595.60
7AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa496.403402.686575.12
8OmanOMNWestern Asia491.472412.566561.09
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa490.659459.868521.05
10MaliMLIWestern Africa490.592455.729522.55
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa484.805473.901496.41
12NigerNERWestern Africa481.960461.381507.97
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia481.077467.620494.66
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa478.000443.818509.01
15MongoliaMNGEastern Asia472.010441.625503.16
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa471.445445.809494.55
17NigeriaNGAWestern Africa469.133435.198502.77
18Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia468.992470.840468.71
19Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa467.730438.777497.09
20Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia467.280407.375508.24
21MoroccoMARNorthern Africa466.070439.951492.44
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa462.256433.701486.68
23Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia461.151393.088508.95
24GuatemalaGTMCentral America459.674456.509463.03
25LiberiaLBRWestern Africa458.520452.375463.52

02In 1957

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Afghanistan593.792
  2. 2Timor-Leste592.973
  3. 3South Sudan565.217
  4. 4Eritrea560.001
  5. 5Bhutan538.122

Lowest

  1. 222Norway115.749
  2. 221Netherlands117.031
  3. 220Sweden124.110
  4. 219Iceland128.184
  5. 218Denmark132.642

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 316.980. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestAfghanistan564.621

    LowestNorway85.630

    Middle country: 273.836

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

    HighestTimor-Leste626.92

    LowestNetherlands140.24

    Middle country: 361.86

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 32 · 190rose · 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 1957.

  • 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 (1957). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1957

07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957?

Afghanistan, at 593.792, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957 describe?

1957.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1957?

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), 1957 the newest?

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

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