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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959

1959, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 648.2601; Sweden is lowest, at 115.1420. The middle country reads 303.4677. Against 1958, 222 values changed (28 up, 194 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1959

HighestSouth Sudan

648.2601

LowestSweden

115.1420

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), 1959, 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), 1959: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa648.2601582.70703.92
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia584.3108547.36617.64
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia581.1000552.51604.25
4BhutanBTNSouthern Asia533.6660504.05559.91
5AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa501.3446410.15578.97
6EritreaERIEastern Africa493.8456461.48526.97
7MaliMLIWestern Africa489.1103454.77520.74
8NigerNERWestern Africa481.0196460.11506.43
9Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa480.5721450.78510.15
10OmanOMNWestern Asia477.4973402.96544.75
11ChinaCHNEastern Asia477.1296415.46532.32
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa476.7981465.14489.08
13CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia473.5455457.96489.10
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa467.4239433.83497.69
15NigeriaNGAWestern Africa465.6010431.13499.69
16Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa464.9243435.63494.62
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa460.4698433.95483.68
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia458.8635426.64491.13
19LiberiaLBRWestern Africa457.9976451.20463.51
20Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa457.0816426.59483.76
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa456.5872381.87526.48
22TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa455.4350423.36488.44
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa454.3949428.69480.40
24Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia451.2163395.12491.11
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia448.8764384.42495.92

02In 1959

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan648.2601
  2. 2Timor-Leste584.3108
  3. 3Afghanistan581.1000
  4. 4Bhutan533.6660
  5. 5Algeria501.3446

Lowest

  1. 222Sweden115.1420
  2. 221Norway115.5251
  3. 220Netherlands116.1098
  4. 219Faroe Islands126.6132
  5. 218Denmark129.6267

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 303.4677. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestSouth Sudan582.70

    LowestSan Marino84.04

    Middle country: 264.65

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

    HighestSouth Sudan703.92

    LowestSweden137.79

    Middle country: 346.26

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 28 · 194rose · 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 1959.

  • 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 (1959). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1959

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959?

South Sudan, at 648.2601, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1959?

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), 1959 the newest?

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

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