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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015

2015, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015 covers 222 countries on 3 measures. Lesotho is highest, at 544.29; Monaco is lowest, at 29.54. The middle country reads 144.90. Against 2014, 222 values changed (44 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60) · Data for 2015

HighestLesotho

544.29

LowestMonaco

29.54

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), 2015, 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), 2015: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1LesothoLSOSouthern Africa544.29489.7033600.246
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa501.83407.8606585.629
3EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa494.97444.5496548.842
4Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa434.39392.3466480.133
5NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa401.67340.2375465.972
6ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa383.55362.0620410.176
7ChadTCDMiddle Africa381.42357.1710405.915
8NigeriaNGAWestern Africa371.98364.3650379.758
9NauruNRUMicronesia356.13289.3789421.476
10Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa347.69327.7992365.066
11KenyaKENEastern Africa335.20296.6397372.268
12South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa329.39274.8583391.265
13MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa328.96286.7714382.682
14SomaliaSOMEastern Africa310.57271.5741349.066
15ZambiaZMBEastern Africa308.26268.4974349.717
16BotswanaBWASouthern Africa307.96276.1908340.507
17Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa304.58295.0844314.963
18MalawiMWIEastern Africa304.14251.4633359.153
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa294.64258.4144332.567
20LiberiaLBRWestern Africa293.55274.8018313.175
21CameroonCMRMiddle Africa292.71257.7951326.922
22SyriaSYRWestern Asia292.36148.6184414.090
23BurundiBDIEastern Africa290.96260.2078321.905
24TogoTGOWestern Africa288.49279.5870298.335
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa284.85257.5771312.278

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Lesotho544.29
  2. 2South Sudan501.83
  3. 3Eswatini494.97
  4. 4Central African Republic434.39
  5. 5Namibia401.67

Lowest

  1. 222Monaco29.54
  2. 221Andorra33.09
  3. 220United Arab Emirates35.88
  4. 219San Marino36.86
  5. 218Macau41.30

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 144.90. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

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

    HighestLesotho489.7033

    LowestMonaco20.2551

    Middle country: 99.2594

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

    HighestLesotho600.246

    LowestMonaco38.775

    Middle country: 189.137

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 44 · 178rose · 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 2015.

  • 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 (2015). Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adult-mortality/2015

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07Questions

Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adult mortality in Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015?

Lesotho, at 544.29, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adult Mortality (Probability of Dying Between 15 and 60), 2015?

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), 2015 the newest?

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

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