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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999

1999, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Zimbabwe is highest, at 647.483; Andorra is lowest, at 48.421. The middle country reads 180.335. Against 1998, 222 values changed (49 up, 173 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 1999

HighestZimbabwe

647.483

LowestAndorra

48.421

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), 1999, 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), 1999: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa647.483616.574677.4631
2EritreaERIEastern Africa587.534358.078745.5206
3EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa568.650542.271597.5599
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa533.919527.430542.9104
5BotswanaBWASouthern Africa529.472490.332569.5765
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa528.092472.091585.1426
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa524.684495.692553.7321
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa496.739473.372516.9461
9Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa492.119401.111573.3525
10NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa488.273454.082525.8297
11UgandaUGAEastern Africa479.365455.493505.1076
12RwandaRWAEastern Africa459.992433.593491.5874
13Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia451.801359.690527.1711
14South SudanSSDEastern Africa446.193419.752475.9059
15AngolaAGOMiddle Africa426.421353.729495.8541
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa424.579385.696465.4946
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa419.987413.392425.1245
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa408.522390.763426.4243
19TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa405.987393.952418.4494
20Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa402.819337.144472.0983
21MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa399.910376.438428.7253
22EthiopiaETHEastern Africa399.111372.901425.6442
23Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa388.014377.859398.4388
24KenyaKENEastern Africa387.514383.533392.5144
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa380.809357.720404.8389

02In 1999

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Zimbabwe647.483
  2. 2Eritrea587.534
  3. 3Eswatini568.650
  4. 4Zambia533.919
  5. 5Botswana529.472

Lowest

  1. 222Andorra48.421
  2. 221Monaco48.605
  3. 220San Marino60.208
  4. 219Macau62.926
  5. 218French Polynesia69.077

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 180.335. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestZimbabwe616.574

    LowestMonaco29.599

    Middle country: 130.012

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

    HighestEritrea745.5206

    LowestAndorra62.6769

    Middle country: 229.8922

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 49 · 173rose · 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 1999.

  • 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 (1999). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/1999

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999?

Zimbabwe, at 647.483, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 1999?

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), 1999 the newest?

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

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