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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966

1966, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 712.664; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 103.494. The middle country reads 268.693. Against 1965, 222 values changed (47 up, 175 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1966

HighestSouth Sudan

712.664

LowestFaroe Islands

103.494

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), 1966, 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), 1966: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa712.664570.3812.841
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia545.828509.2577.634
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia540.604512.5564.221
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa516.917394.0615.811
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia501.776471.1527.907
6EritreaERIEastern Africa496.731462.1531.356
7AngolaAGOMiddle Africa484.547405.3551.489
8MaliMLIWestern Africa480.376445.4512.712
9NigerNERWestern Africa472.101448.8500.253
10EthiopiaETHEastern Africa460.760389.2528.737
11NigeriaNGAWestern Africa457.880421.4493.436
12LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia451.822408.6494.405
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa450.378437.4463.698
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa447.228439.5453.576
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa444.943424.0463.997
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa444.155392.7493.673
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa440.957414.0468.181
18CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia435.705409.4461.048
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa431.855396.6462.223
20YemenYEMWestern Asia429.347348.9502.833
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa427.084396.2456.180
22ComorosCOMEastern Africa426.548383.3466.859
23DR CongoCODMiddle Africa424.197403.2448.602
24NepalNPLSouthern Asia423.938417.7431.461
25GuineaGINWestern Africa422.055393.0450.734

02In 1966

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan712.664
  2. 2Timor-Leste545.828
  3. 3Afghanistan540.604
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau516.917
  5. 5Bhutan501.776

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands103.494
  2. 221Sweden111.985
  3. 220Norway113.720
  4. 219Andorra114.473
  5. 218Netherlands120.226

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 268.693. “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 Sudan570.3

    LowestAndorra73.4

    Middle country: 220.5

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

    HighestSouth Sudan812.841

    LowestFaroe Islands127.010

    Middle country: 301.879

031965 → 1966

Since 1965

What changed between 1965 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 47 · 175rose · 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 1966.

  • 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 (1966). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966 [data set], describing 1966. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1966

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966?

South Sudan, at 712.664, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966 describe?

1966.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1966?

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), 1966 the newest?

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

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