Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1961

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1961: 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	642.107	579.38	696.51
2	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	607.022	411.70	746.30
3	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	574.842	537.93	607.50
4	AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia	568.956	540.79	592.06
5	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	527.317	497.65	553.38
6	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	505.888	417.19	582.54
7	AngolaAGOMiddle Africa	487.895	415.89	549.94
8	EritreaERIEastern Africa	487.394	454.66	520.74
9	MaliMLIWestern Africa	487.354	452.89	519.16
10	NigerNERWestern Africa	478.007	455.61	504.67
11	ChinaCHNEastern Asia	473.001	413.51	526.88
12	Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa	469.927	440.71	499.07
13	GambiaGMBWestern Africa	469.528	457.29	482.32
14	OmanOMNWestern Asia	463.722	392.00	529.58
15	CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia	463.099	443.83	482.07
16	NigeriaNGAWestern Africa	462.675	427.79	497.08
17	Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa	457.205	423.80	486.98
18	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	456.670	449.32	462.63
19	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	454.933	424.82	485.43
20	LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia	453.476	422.70	484.48
21	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	451.781	421.77	482.81
22	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	450.330	419.73	477.71
23	DR CongoCODMiddle Africa	449.540	417.13	486.39
24	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	449.488	423.08	472.03
25	EthiopiaETHEastern Africa	447.701	375.11	515.91

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 291.405. “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 Sudan579.38

  LowestSan Marino80.27

  Middle country: 245.77

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

  HighestCameroon746.30

  LowestFaroe Islands134.66

  Middle country: 328.61

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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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