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Updated: 30 Apr. 2013

Mortality Patterns in Guyana

1.1 Introduction

One major indicator often used to measure quality of life is mortality patterns, which can be determined by how long the population is expected to live on average, and the age and sex patterns of mortality. This being one of the major goals of the Millennium Development plan, the main objectives of this occasional paper are as follow:

	Calculate the age specific death rates;
	Construct Guyana life tables and elaborate on the importance of the following functions: a) the probability of death; and b) average life expectancy for males, females and both sexes combined.

1.2 Data Requirements

The data required for this method are described below:

	Registered deaths by age and sex for Guyana in 2004; and
	2002 census population distribution by age and sex, adjusted to 2004 to correspond to the reference period to which the deaths occurred.

1.3 Age Specific Death Rates

The death rate of a particular age group is referred as an age specific death rate. It is derived by dividing the total deaths in each age group by the corresponding total population in the same age group.

The age specific death rates for the entire country and for males and females separately, are reflected in the last three columns of Table 1, and graphically illustrated in Figure 1. The feature of the death pattern is J-shape curve, indicating less number of infant and childhood deaths, and as expected, concentration of deaths in the terminal ages. This is a pattern usually depicted by developed countries, and symbolic of long term improvement in the health sector. But, unlike Guyana, many less developed countries have U-shape pattern of age specific death rates; reflecting high infant and childhood deaths, as against high number of deaths which occurred in the advanced ages, primarily due to old age exhaustion (see Table 1 and Figure 1).

Table 1: Distribution of population and deaths by age and sex, Guyana:2004
	POPULATION			DEATHS			AGE SPECIFIC DEATH RATES
Age Group	Male	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total

0	8,843	8,614	17,457	196	146	343	22.19	17.00	19.63
1 - 4	37,151	35,701	72,852	49	37	87	1.33	1.05	1.19
5 - 9	49,883	48,215	98,099	12	20	32	0.24	0.42	0.33
10 -14	41,859	40,841	82,700	21	16	37	0.50	0.40	0.45
15 - 19	34,018	33,896	67,914	59	29	89	1.75	0.86	1.31
20 - 24	32,406	32,962	65,368	69	55	124	2.14	1.65	1.90
25 - 29	30,702	31,293	61,995	120	69	188	3.90	2.19	3.04
30 - 34	29,538	29,264	58,802	160	75	235	5.42	2.55	3.99
35 - 39	26,848	26,667	53,515	164	80	244	6.11	2.99	4.56
40 - 44	23,700	23,479	47,178	171	102	273	7.22	4.34	5.79
45 - 49	18,231	18,114	36,345	184	123	307	10.10	6.80	8.46
50 - 54	14,429	14,140	28,569	250	123	373	17.30	8.71	13.05
55 - 59	9,120	9,279	18,399	192	132	325	21.08	14.26	17.64
60 - 64	7,303	7,924	15,227	233	185	417	31.84	23.33	27.41
65 - 69	5,662	6,254	11,916	233	165	397	41.06	26.32	33.33
70 - 74	4,027	4,642	8,669	251	217	468	62.24	46.78	53.96
75 - 79	2,548	2,988	5,536	217	191	408	85.33	63.89	73.75
80 +	2,333	3,476	5,809	347	448	796	148.84	129.02	136.98
Total	378,600	377,749	756,349	2,929	2,214	5,143	7.74	5.86	6.80
Note1: Estimates, & based on the 2002 census to correspond to the reference year of the deaths. Note2: ASDR = deaths in each age group/population in that same age group multiply by 1,000. Source: Bureau of Statistics, Guyana

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