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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970

1970, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. South Sudan is highest, at 720.718; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 98.983. The middle country reads 253.181. Against 1969, 222 values changed (36 up, 186 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1970

HighestSouth Sudan

720.718

LowestFaroe Islands

98.983

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), 1970, 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), 1970: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1South SudanSSDEastern Africa720.718579.72824.59
2Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa672.329596.07738.71
3CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia630.410416.34766.69
4Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia518.439482.55551.14
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia517.806489.87541.49
6Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa506.266384.66608.71
7BhutanBTNSouthern Asia473.769445.08497.61
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa473.155394.19540.29
9NigerNERWestern Africa470.901446.27500.35
10MaliMLIWestern Africa469.902434.04502.94
11EritreaERIEastern Africa468.855434.49503.29
12NigeriaNGAWestern Africa441.657409.65473.26
13AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa440.502420.40459.10
14LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia437.348397.28477.27
15EthiopiaETHEastern Africa435.555364.87503.88
16GambiaGMBWestern Africa435.255421.04449.67
17LiberiaLBRWestern Africa435.250426.99442.28
18ChadTCDMiddle Africa434.860380.74486.94
19MalawiMWIEastern Africa423.328398.92449.87
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa416.377394.26441.54
21Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa412.671386.50439.26
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia412.204404.12421.66
23SenegalSENWestern Africa411.670389.86433.18
24GuineaGINWestern Africa410.641379.12441.88
25Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa409.763375.14439.04

02In 1970

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1South Sudan720.718
  2. 2Equatorial Guinea672.329
  3. 3Cambodia630.410
  4. 4Timor-Leste518.439
  5. 5Afghanistan517.806

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands98.983
  2. 221Andorra109.252
  3. 220Sweden112.726
  4. 219San Marino117.544
  5. 218Monaco117.905

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 253.181. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031969 → 1970

Since 1969

What changed between 1969 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 36 · 186rose · 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 1970.

  • 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 (1970). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970 [data set], describing 1970. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1970

07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970?

South Sudan, at 720.718, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970 describe?

1970.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1970?

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), 1970 the newest?

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

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