Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1960

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1960: 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	South SudanSSDEastern Africa	645.1656	581.05	700.20
2	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	610.7804	415.09	747.80
3	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	579.6883	542.75	612.69
4	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	575.3500	546.97	598.48
5	ChinaCHNEastern Asia	542.8503	480.15	598.09
6	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	530.7347	501.10	556.89
7	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	503.9152	413.87	581.11
8	EritreaERIEastern Africa	490.6425	458.12	523.86
9	MaliMLIWestern Africa	489.0897	454.40	521.06
10	NigerNERWestern Africa	479.8943	458.46	505.61
11	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	475.1441	445.49	504.65
12	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	473.0963	461.22	485.56
13	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	472.7896	450.73	495.33
14	OmanOMNWestern Asia	470.8962	397.69	537.52
15	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	468.0480	450.56	485.37
16	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	464.4332	430.08	498.39
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	462.3338	428.01	493.07
18	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	460.2917	430.10	490.86
19	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	457.3068	450.16	463.10
20	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	456.4177	424.11	488.83
21	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	455.4257	428.92	478.32
22	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	455.1687	423.91	487.39
23	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	453.9419	378.61	524.28
24	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	453.2771	423.06	480.03
25	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	445.3289	412.03	475.87

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 299.7406. “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 Sudan581.05

  LowestNorway81.78

  Middle country: 251.87

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

  HighestCameroon747.80

  LowestFaroe Islands139.07

  Middle country: 338.71

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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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