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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979

1979, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Timor-Leste is highest, at 772.337; Andorra is lowest, at 83.767. The middle country reads 217.253. Against 1978, 222 values changed (39 up, 183 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1979

HighestTimor-Leste

772.337

LowestAndorra

83.767

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), 1979, 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), 1979: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia772.337580.48885.40
2CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia594.873385.58769.83
3AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia530.683465.90584.16
4South SudanSSDEastern Africa475.297458.53494.35
5EritreaERIEastern Africa464.376405.08521.23
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa460.945381.85531.81
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa448.761326.88559.46
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa435.901363.38507.26
9NicaraguaNICCentral America428.353236.20580.23
10ChadTCDMiddle Africa419.637361.72476.26
11UgandaUGAEastern Africa416.262351.03478.12
12MaliMLIWestern Africa411.408393.63428.48
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa405.084401.86407.97
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa403.484385.36423.55
15BhutanBTNSouthern Asia401.961373.77424.12
16NigerNERWestern Africa398.550374.13427.59
17GambiaGMBWestern Africa395.161376.91413.14
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa393.320365.99423.03
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa388.627359.36417.72
20LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia386.551370.19403.84
21Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa383.162347.67419.42
22GuineaGINWestern Africa378.097350.16407.55
23NepalNPLSouthern Asia375.365363.73387.83
24ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa374.420236.04493.91
25SomaliaSOMEastern Africa374.112346.67401.04

02In 1979

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste772.337
  2. 2Cambodia594.873
  3. 3Afghanistan530.683
  4. 4South Sudan475.297
  5. 5Eritrea464.376

Lowest

  1. 222Andorra83.767
  2. 221San Marino93.717
  3. 220Faroe Islands96.026
  4. 219Japan100.353
  5. 218Monaco103.092

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 217.253. “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-Leste580.48

    LowestAndorra52.54

    Middle country: 171.79

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

    HighestTimor-Leste885.40

    LowestAndorra111.00

    Middle country: 271.03

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 39 · 183rose · 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 1979.

  • 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 (1979). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1979

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979?

Timor-Leste, at 772.337, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1979?

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), 1979 the newest?

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

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