Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income): Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) fell 1.45 on 2023 (from 297.13 to 295.68).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −3.78 and a typical year strayed about 6.94 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 17.12 in 2021 and the biggest yearly fall was 24.59 in 2022. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 3.66 a year. A straight line explains 66% 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

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What this measures

Adult mortality rate, male, is the probability of dying between the ages of 15 and 60--that is, the probability of a 15-year-old male 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 Population 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 65 values

Mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 221.63 (2024)
• Algeria — 86.86 (2024)
• Bahrain — 58.11 (2024)
• Djibouti — 247.06 (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 169.06 (2024)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 106.74 (2024)
• Iraq — 153.92 (2024)
• Israel — 70.74 (2024)
• Jordan — 86.02 (2024)
• Kuwait

More health data for Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)

• Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 14.57% (2025)
• Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 15.02% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female — 263.9 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 39.81% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male — 269.76 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 40.95% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, total — 533.66 million (2025)
• Population ages 0-14 (% of total population)

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Questions people ask

What is Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults)?

295.68 in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1960?

It is down 37.3% from 471.61 in 1960 (0.73% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 471.61 in 1960 and the lowest 295.68 in 2024.

Is the latest change in mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) unusual for Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)?

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)'s mortality rate, adult, male (per 1,000 male adults) fell 1.45 on 2023 (from 297.13 to 295.68). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −3.78 and a typical year strayed about 6.94 from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.DYN.AMRT.MA, 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 (MPIDR), uri: www.mortality.org; University of California, Berkeley (USA), uri: www.mortality.org, note: Human Mortality Database; French Instit… 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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