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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968

1968, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 706.21; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 100.64. The middle country reads 257.51. Against 1967, 222 values changed (51 up, 171 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1968

HighestSouth Sudan

706.21

LowestFaroe Islands

100.64

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), 1968, 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), 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa706.21568.422807.640
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia532.42496.278564.552
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia529.32501.655552.680
4Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa511.51389.403612.022
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia487.99458.092513.136
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa479.01399.718546.195
7MaliMLIWestern Africa474.55438.926507.373
8EritreaERIEastern Africa472.75437.893507.640
9NigerNERWestern Africa471.75448.184500.176
10NigeriaNGAWestern Africa467.73416.544515.925
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa445.77425.511464.391
12GambiaGMBWestern Africa443.05430.024456.350
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia443.00401.614484.080
14LiberiaLBRWestern Africa442.19434.022449.050
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa440.07387.027491.066
16EthiopiaETHEastern Africa434.31363.241502.612
17CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia431.97396.835465.243
18Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa427.33400.760454.256
19MalawiMWIEastern Africa424.20398.044452.522
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa421.42400.030446.024
21Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa421.01386.516450.463
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia418.52410.922427.477
23SenegalSENWestern Africa417.96396.258439.654
24ComorosCOMEastern Africa417.34376.126455.634
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa417.31386.322447.136

02In 1968

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan706.21
  2. 2Timor-Leste532.42
  3. 3Afghanistan529.32
  4. 4Guinea-Bissau511.51
  5. 5Bhutan487.99

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands100.64
  2. 221Andorra112.22
  3. 220Sweden114.95
  4. 219Norway115.60
  5. 218San Marino119.78

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 257.51. “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 Sudan568.422

    LowestAndorra72.692

    Middle country: 212.392

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

    HighestSouth Sudan807.640

    LowestFaroe Islands124.497

    Middle country: 298.105

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 51 · 171rose · 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 1968.

  • 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 (1968). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1968

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968?

South Sudan, at 706.21, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968 describe?

1968.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1968?

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), 1968 the newest?

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

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