World Mortality in 2000: Life Tables for 191 Countries - Softcover

Lopez, Alan D.; Ahmad, O.B.; Guillot, M.; Inoue, M.; Ferguson, B.D.; Salomon, J.A.; Murray, Christopher J. L.; Hill, K.H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9241562048 ISBN 13: 9789241562041

Publisher: World Health Organization, 2002

Synopsis

Reliable information on the numbers of people who die in various countries according to age and sex is a fundamental requirement for setting health priorities and evaluating health programmes. Mortality levels and trends have been monitored in some countries for centuries, while in others, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is currently known about adult mortality. This uncertainty has increased in the 19902 due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, precisely at the time when priority setting in health requires reliable information on mortality levels in countries and regions. This book provides detailed country, regional and global estimates of age-specific mortality rates and life expectancy in the year 2000 for all 191 Member States of WHO, and for 14 sub-regions. Details on the data sources available and how they have been evaluated and adjusted to produce the best possible estimates of mortality are provided, along with a comprehensive analysis and presentation of all-known census, survey and vital registration data on child mortality since the 1960s.

The text should serve as a key reference on mortality conditions worldwide at the start of the new millennium and should be an invaluable source against which to monitor the success of disease and injury prevention programmes. The text is bilingual: English, French and Spanish.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Health Organization
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9241562048
• ISBN 13: 9789241562041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 800