All-cause Mortality Rate In Older Adults

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All-cause mortality rate in older adults × Subscribe here to receive notifications whenever content on this page changes. Subscribe Already subscribed? To unsubscribe click here. × Associated Indicators All-cause mortality rate in older people (per 100 000 population) Definition: Number of deaths among older adults per 100 000 population. Disaggregation: Sex, Age Method of measurement Civil or sample registration: Mortality by age and sex are used to calculate age specific rates. Census: Mortality by age and sex tabulated from questions on recent deaths that occurred in the household during a given period preceding the census (usually 12 months). Census or surveys: Direct or indirect methods provide adult mortality rates based on information on survival of parents or siblings. Method of estimation: Mortality rates by age and sex for WHO Member States are derived from life tables which draw on UN World Population Prospects 2015 revision, recent and unpublished analyses of all-cause and HIV mortality for countries with high HIV prevalence, vital registration data, and estimates of child mortality from UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Population numbers are taken from the United Nations' World Population Prospects 2015 revision.   More detailed methods are available from the links below.  Predominant type of statistics: predicted. Method of estimation of global and regional aggregates: Mortality rates by age and sex for WHO Member States are derived from life tables which draw on UN World Population Prospects 2015 revision, recent and unpublished analyses of all-cause and HIV mortality for countries with high HIV prevalence, vital registration data, and estimates of child mortality from UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. Population numbers are taken from the United Nations' World Population Prospects 2015 revision.   More detailed methods are available from the links below.  Predominant type of statistics: predicted. Unit of Measure: Deaths per 1000 population Expected frequency of data dissemination: Every 2-3 years Expected frequency of data collection: Continuous IMRID: 10203 If you have any feedback, you are welcome to write it here. If you need to access the old Global Health Observatory data, you can do it here. But before you leave, please provide us your feedback about our new data portal. ×

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