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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965

1965, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 638.202; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 104.958. The middle country reads 271.985. Against 1964, 222 values changed (40 up, 182 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1965

HighestSouth Sudan

638.202

LowestFaroe Islands

104.958

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), 1965, 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), 1965: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa638.202525.117728.186
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia552.260515.457584.051
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia546.273518.310569.683
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa515.254395.634610.804
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia508.116477.406534.422
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa485.416408.360550.791
7MaliMLIWestern Africa481.606446.375514.131
8EritreaERIEastern Africa476.540442.694510.596
9IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia476.032372.219564.240
10NigerNERWestern Africa472.734449.579500.624
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa456.814421.806491.130
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa453.311441.096465.937
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia452.884409.518495.527
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa452.002413.635494.126
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa449.697442.011456.005
16Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa447.050419.478474.825
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa442.576421.623462.178
18CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia440.970415.900465.211
19EthiopiaETHEastern Africa440.195368.380508.488
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa438.328391.362487.279
21Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa436.606402.286466.368
22ChadTCDMiddle Africa434.240397.555470.756
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa431.863401.400460.304
24YemenYEMWestern Asia431.356350.268505.073
25ComorosCOMEastern Africa430.776385.959472.869

02In 1965

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan638.202
  2. 2Timor-Leste552.260
  3. 3Afghanistan546.273
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau515.254
  5. 5Bhutan508.116

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands104.958
  2. 221Sweden113.818
  3. 220Andorra116.263
  4. 219Norway116.562
  5. 218Netherlands119.406

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 271.985. “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 Sudan525.117

    LowestAndorra75.092

    Middle country: 223.623

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

    HighestSouth Sudan728.186

    LowestFaroe Islands128.093

    Middle country: 310.025

031964 → 1965

Since 1964

What changed between 1964 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 40 · 182rose · 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 1965.

  • 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 (1965). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965 [data set], describing 1965. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1965

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965?

South Sudan, at 638.202, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965 describe?

1965.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1965?

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), 1965 the newest?

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

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