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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978

1978, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Cambodia is highest, at 992.73; Andorra is lowest, at 87.05. The middle country reads 219.36. Against 1977, 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 1978

HighestCambodia

992.73

LowestAndorra

87.05

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), 1978, 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), 1978: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia992.73979.60998.1189
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia786.00597.01893.0188
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia500.58455.82538.6763
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa476.30457.00498.0306
5EritreaERIEastern Africa469.14407.51527.8309
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa464.77384.16536.3988
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa462.53389.81534.0941
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa448.64371.97523.0853
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa422.27364.40478.6683
10MaliMLIWestern Africa418.59399.21437.1327
11DR CongoCODMiddle Africa413.85389.76440.0139
12UgandaUGAEastern Africa412.09346.08474.2629
13NigerNERWestern Africa410.46383.72441.9028
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia410.06382.22432.0545
15LiberiaLBRWestern Africa408.31405.23411.0246
16GambiaGMBWestern Africa406.58389.89423.0706
17BurundiBDIEastern Africa398.76372.19427.7981
18LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia394.77377.90412.5635
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa390.74362.39418.9750
20Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa385.67350.32421.3678
21GuineaGINWestern Africa382.81354.41412.4920
22SomaliaSOMEastern Africa381.44349.17412.8134
23NepalNPLSouthern Asia379.71367.51392.7857
24ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa375.09236.78495.0677
25Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa367.03336.15398.3044

02In 1978

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Cambodia992.73
  2. 2Timor-Leste786.00
  3. 3Afghanistan500.58
  4. 4South Sudan476.30
  5. 5Eritrea469.14

Lowest

  1. 222Andorra87.05
  2. 221San Marino96.22
  3. 220Faroe Islands96.62
  4. 219Japan102.93
  5. 218Liechtenstein104.26

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 219.36. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestCambodia979.60

    LowestAndorra55.04

    Middle country: 173.89

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

    HighestCambodia998.1189

    LowestAndorra114.5010

    Middle country: 270.2785

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 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 1978.

  • 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 (1978). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1978

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978?

Cambodia, at 992.73, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1978?

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), 1978 the newest?

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

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