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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974

1974, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 622.156; Faroe Islands is lowest, at 98.893. The middle country reads 232.917. Against 1973, 222 values changed (46 up, 176 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1974

HighestCambodia

622.156

LowestFaroe Islands

98.893

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), 1974, 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), 1974: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia622.156407.22769.2747
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia522.571485.15557.4252
3EritreaERIEastern Africa501.489451.29549.7276
4AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia493.341465.66517.0500
5CyprusCYPWestern Asia490.251168.50693.8328
6South SudanSSDEastern Africa483.874458.15512.3491
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa464.105394.48531.8254
8Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa464.041391.01534.7612
9AngolaAGOMiddle Africa457.062382.83522.6028
10NigerNERWestern Africa453.426423.40488.3447
11MaliMLIWestern Africa449.767414.05482.9203
12BhutanBTNSouthern Asia443.280415.28465.9312
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa420.472414.88425.3314
14GambiaGMBWestern Africa418.428404.30432.7183
15ChadTCDMiddle Africa417.681374.34460.7835
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa414.793382.66446.6111
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa410.393388.22431.0090
18DR CongoCODMiddle Africa409.190388.14432.7854
19BurundiBDIEastern Africa404.702378.73433.4134
20SomaliaSOMEastern Africa403.455373.87432.3133
21MalawiMWIEastern Africa402.301377.54429.1387
22NepalNPLSouthern Asia402.239394.15411.6144
23GuineaGINWestern Africa399.657370.69429.0195
24LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia398.810385.31413.3698
25Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa395.200360.74428.9870

02In 1974

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia622.156
  2. 2Timor-Leste522.571
  3. 3Eritrea501.489
  4. 4Afghanistan493.341
  5. 5Cyprus490.251

Lowest

  1. 222Faroe Islands98.893
  2. 221Andorra99.156
  3. 220San Marino105.773
  4. 219Liechtenstein113.141
  5. 218Sweden113.266

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 232.917. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestTimor-Leste485.15

    LowestSan Marino62.79

    Middle country: 191.76

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

    HighestCambodia769.2747

    LowestFaroe Islands123.7530

    Middle country: 278.1788

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 46 · 176rose · 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 1974.

  • 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 (1974). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1974

0674 held

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974?

Cambodia, at 622.156, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1974?

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), 1974 the newest?

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

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