Netherlands's mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) was 43.63 in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 14.84% from 51.23 in 2013 (1.59% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 43.63 | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 46.77 | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 51.23 | 2013 |
| Highest | 89.32 | 1960 |
| Lowest | 43.63 | 2023 |
| Average since 2014 | 47.26 | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 89.32 | 1960 |
What the numbers say
In 2023, Netherlands' mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) fell 3.1 on 2022 (from 46.73 to 43.63).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2022), the average change was −0.69 and a typical year strayed about 1.43 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.49 in 1989 and the biggest yearly fall was 5.74 in 1974. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.65 a year. A straight line explains 64% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2023, Netherlands had the 10th highest value of the 15 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 43.63 | 2023 |
| World | 112.66 | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 70.27 | 2023 |
| High income | 62.51 | 2023 |
Closest to Netherlands in the 2023 ranking
What this measures
Adult mortality rate, female, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old female dying before reaching age 60, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year between those ages.
Limitations: Data from United Nations Population Division's World Populaton Prospects are originally 5-year period data and the presented are linearly interpolated by the World Bank for annual series. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 64 values
| Year | Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 43.63 |
| 2022 | 46.73 |
| 2021 | 47.6 |
| 2020 | 44.61 |
| 2019 | 45.05 |
| 2018 | 46.77 |
| 2017 | 47.25 |
| 2016 | 51.05 |
| 2015 | 49.46 |
| 2014 | 50.47 |
| 2013 |
Mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) in nearby economies
- Albania — 46.82 (2024)
- Andorra — 27.39 (2023)
- Armenia — 57.47 (2024)
- Austria — 39.54 (2023)
- Azerbaijan — 71.21 (2024)
- Belarus — 79.84 (2018)
- Belgium — 43.5 (2024)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 59.98 (2024)
- Bulgaria — 118.35 (2021)
- Channel Islands
More health data for Netherlands
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 4.75% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 5.04% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 1.32 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 14.49% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 1.38 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 15.39% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 2.7 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 14.93% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 4.79% (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Netherlands's mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults)?
- 43.63 in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1960?
- It is down 51.16% from 89.32 in 1960 (1.13% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 89.32 in 1960 and the lowest 43.63 in 2023.
- How does Netherlands rank?
- 10th highest of 15 economies with data for 2023.
- Is the latest change in mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) unusual for Netherlands?
- In 2023, Netherlands' mortality rate, adult, female (per 1,000 female adults) fell 3.1 on 2022 (from 46.73 to 43.63). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1993 to 2022), the average change was −0.69 and a typical year strayed about 1.43 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.7 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.DYN.AMRT.FE, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Human Mortality Database, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, uri: www.mortality.org; University of California, Berkeley, uri: www.mortality.org, note: Human Mortality Database; French Institute for Demogr… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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