Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators

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Adult mortality rate is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old dying before reaching age 60, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates between those ages.

Rank	Country	Value
Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Zimbabwe	718.46
2	Lesotho	674.09
3	Swaziland	614.81
4	South Africa	577.12
5	Zambia	542.12
6	Sierra Leone	503.46
7	Mozambique	488.51
8	Botswana	487.12
9	Central African Republic	456.41
10	Malawi	448.45
11	Afghanistan	439.01
12	Uganda	411.76
13	Angola	409.23
14	Nigeria	406.37
15	Cameroon	406
16	Kazakhstan	405.02
17	Guinea-Bissau	402.95
18	Rwanda	402.54
19	Kenya	401.84
20	Democratic Republic of the Congo	399.87
21	Sub-Saharan Africa	395.49
22	Mali	389.41
23	Burundi	386.89
24	Equatorial Guinea	385.92
25	Eritrea	380.61
26	Tanzania	377.27
27	Republic of the Congo	377.19
28	Somalia	371.45
29	Chad	360.70
30	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	357.99
31	Djibouti	351.44
32	Niger	351.05
33	Papua New Guinea	347.86
34	Namibia	345.70
35	Ethiopia	338.97
36	Burkina Faso	334.60
37	Senegal	329.35
38	Gambia	328.62
39	Ghana	327.21
40	Gabon	323.49
41	Least developed countries: UN classification	313.53
42	Ivory Coast	313.37
43	Mauritania	308.23
44	Sudan	306.02
45	Turkmenistan	303.25
46	Thailand	296.65
47	Low income	294.65
48	Cambodia	294.29
49	Mongolia	291.02
50	El Salvador	288.36
51	Haiti	286.91
52	Moldova	282.65
53	Madagascar	270.24
54	Timor-Leste	263.64
55	Kyrgyzstan	261.75
56	Suriname	260.92
57	India	260.55
58	Burma	257.01
59	Guinea	256.17
60	Liberia	254.80
61	Yemen	251.27
62	South Asia	246.50
63	Togo	242.06
64	Uzbekistan	239.98
65	Trinidad and Tobago	239.28
66	Guyana	239.10
67	Bolivia	234.66
68	Guatemala	233.61
69	Comoros	230.94
70	Brazil	229.96
71	Fiji	228.79
72	Mauritius	228.17
73	Laos	226.46
74	Iraq	226.13
75	Jamaica	225
76	Low & middle income	219.14
77	Bhutan	216.86
78	Benin	211.05
79	Upper middle income	210.49
80	Tajikistan	210.07
81	Bangladesh	209.50
82	Solomon Islands	207.33
83	Dominican Republic	206.30
84	Nicaragua	205.15
85	Middle income	204.75
86	Lower middle income	203.64
87	Colombia	200.40
88	Nepal	199.12
89	Georgia	198.17
90	Romania	195.93
91	Sri Lanka	195.80
92	Samoa	193.31
93	Latin America & Caribbean	192.27
94	Bahamas	188.39
95	Tonga	186.53
96	Azerbaijan	180.79
97	Micronesia	178.53
98	Venezuela	176.70
99	Paraguay	172.22
100	Honduras	171.97
101	Vanuatu	171.27
102	Cape Verde	170.65
103	Sao Tome and Principe	170.33
104	Indonesia	165.88
105	Ecuador	165.78
106	Armenia	165.25
107	Argentina	165.13
108	Pakistan	165.05
109	Peru	163.97
110	Egypt	163.11
111	Jordan	162.34
112	Montenegro	161.76
113	East Asia & Pacific	160.55
114	Middle East & North Africa	158.19
115	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	156.75
116	Philippines	155.82
117	Netherlands Antilles	155.45
118	Serbia	155.41
119	Lebanon	152.02
120	Maldives	151.56
121	Turkey	151.13
122	Malaysia	150.11
123	Mayotte	149.93
124	China	149.18
125	St. Lucia	148.78
126	Croatia	147.20
127	Morocco	146.71
128	Libya	146.71
129	French Polynesia	145.18
130	Iran	144.31
131	Czech Republic	143.36
132	Uruguay	141.12
133	Mexico	139.15
134	Saudi Arabia	139.12
135	Panama	137.26
136	Vietnam	135.70
137	Bosnia and Herzegovina	134.97
138	New Caledonia	134.87
139	Macedonia	134.26
140	Puerto Rico	132.55
141	West Bank and Gaza	127.74
142	Aruba	124.93
143	Tunisia	123.25
144	Syria	122.40
145	Guam	121.96
146	Algeria	119.85
147	Belize	119.62
148	Costa Rica	112.51
149	Qatar	110.97
150	Cuba	109.12
151	Barbados	107.06
152	North Korea	106.31
153	South Korea	106.31
154	Grenada	104.59
155	Bahrain	102.29
156	Albania	100.06
157	Oman	98.34
158	Virgin Islands (U.S.)	95.20
159	Greece	93.37
160	Brunei Darussalam	86.99
161	Kuwait	85.20
162	Singapore	81.02
163	Channel Islands	77.44
164	Cyprus	77.29
165	United Arab Emirates	77.22
166	Hong Kong	76.41
167	Macau	72.91
168	Malta	68

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Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) - Mortality - Health - World Development Indicators

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