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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963

1963, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 645.77; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 108.67. The middle country reads 282.14. Against 1962, 222 values changed (37 up, 185 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1963

HighestSouth Sudan

645.77

LowestFaroe Islands

108.67

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), 1963, 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), 1963: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa645.77527.638736.99
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia564.32527.505596.30
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia557.60529.777580.70
4BhutanBTNSouthern Asia518.76488.645544.91
5Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa510.57398.778599.11
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa486.67411.307550.95
7MaliMLIWestern Africa485.18450.054517.59
8EritreaERIEastern Africa480.59447.794513.84
9NigerNERWestern Africa474.27451.703501.25
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa461.59448.741474.92
11YemenYEMWestern Asia461.18366.447544.06
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa460.43426.203494.12
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia460.21417.834501.75
14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa459.04430.623487.52
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa453.56445.808459.88
16CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia450.83429.301471.84
17OmanOMNWestern Asia447.82379.307511.80
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa446.43412.189476.49
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa446.04414.818481.37
20Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa444.29416.873472.26
21EthiopiaETHEastern Africa442.29371.742509.15
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa441.02410.798468.66
23NepalNPLSouthern Asia438.89426.026453.04
24MadagascarMDGEastern Africa438.78412.331460.87
25TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa436.55409.012465.15

02In 1963

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan645.77
  2. 2Timor-Leste564.32
  3. 3Afghanistan557.60
  4. 4Bhutan518.76
  5. 5Guinea-Bissau510.57

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands108.67
  2. 221Sweden114.11
  3. 220Netherlands117.15
  4. 219Norway118.00
  5. 218Andorra121.78

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 282.14. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestAfghanistan529.777

    LowestSan Marino78.126

    Middle country: 238.859

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

    HighestSouth Sudan736.99

    LowestFaroe Islands130.42

    Middle country: 322.48

031962 → 1963

Since 1962

What changed between 1962 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 37 · 185rose · 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 1963.

  • 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 (1963). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963 [data set], describing 1963. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1963

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963?

South Sudan, at 645.77, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963 describe?

1963.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1963?

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), 1963 the newest?

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

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