Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) - Country Ranking

Definition: Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.

Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Popu

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Bulgaria 18.00 2020
2 Serbia 16.90 2020
3 Ukraine 15.90 2020
4 Lithuania 15.60 2020
5 Romania 15.40 2020
6 Latvia 15.20 2020
7 Russia 14.60 2020
8 Hungary 14.50 2020
9 Croatia 14.10 2020
10 Lesotho 13.69 2020
11 Belarus 13.00 2020
12 Georgia 12.75 2020
13 Italy 12.60 2020
13 Poland 12.60 2020
15 North Macedonia 12.40 2020
16 Greece 12.20 2020
17 Czech Republic 12.10 2020
18 Portugal 12.00 2020
19 Germany 11.90 2020
19 Estonia 11.90 2020
21 Moldova 11.78 2020
22 Central African Republic 11.72 2020
23 Chad 11.72 2020
24 Montenegro 11.70 2020
25 Nigeria 11.42 2020
26 Slovenia 11.40 2020
27 Sierra Leone 11.30 2020
28 Japan 11.10 2020
29 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11.05 2020
30 Belgium 11.00 2020
31 Slovak Republic 10.80 2020
32 Somalia 10.50 2020
33 Spain 10.40 2020
33 United Kingdom 10.40 2020
35 Austria 10.30 2020
35 United States 10.30 2020
37 Finland 10.00 2020
38 France 9.90 2020
38 San Marino 9.90 2020
40 Armenia 9.80 2020
41 Côte d'Ivoire 9.71 2020
42 Netherlands 9.70 2020
43 Dominica 9.60 2016
43 Puerto Rico 9.60 2020
45 Grenada 9.59 2020
46 Sweden 9.50 2020
47 Uruguay 9.48 2020
48 Denmark 9.40 2020
49 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 9.38 2020
50 South Africa 9.38 2020
51 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 9.32 2020
52 Cuba 9.30 2020
53 Guinea-Bissau 9.27 2020
54 Greenland 9.20 2020
55 Mali 9.16 2020
56 Barbados 9.13 2020
57 Dem. Rep. Congo 9.12 2020
58 Equatorial Guinea 8.91 2020
59 Cameroon 8.88 2020
60 Eswatini 8.88 2020
61 Switzerland 8.80 2020
62 Mauritius 8.70 2020
63 Trinidad and Tobago 8.64 2020
64 Kazakhstan 8.60 2020
65 Benin 8.57 2020
66 Haiti 8.38 2020
67 Fiji 8.33 2020
68 Albania 8.26 2020
69 Myanmar 8.25 2020
70 Liechtenstein 8.20 2020
71 Togo 8.20 2020
72 St. Kitts and Nevis 8.10 2014
72 Canada 8.10 2020
74 Guinea 8.03 2020
75 Mozambique 7.95 2020
76 Thailand 7.92 2020
77 Malta 7.90 2020
78 Niger 7.82 2020
79 Angola 7.80 2020
80 Namibia 7.73 2020
81 Burkina Faso 7.71 2020
82 Zimbabwe 7.69 2020
83 Guyana 7.65 2020
84 Jamaica 7.61 2020
85 Burundi 7.61 2020
86 Argentina 7.60 2020
87 Palau 7.60 2020
88 The Gambia 7.55 2020
89 Azerbaijan 7.50 2020
89 Norway 7.50 2020
91 Suriname 7.45 2020
92 St. Lucia 7.33 2020
93 India 7.30 2020
94 Luxembourg 7.30 2020
95 Papua New Guinea 7.30 2020
96 Liberia 7.26 2020
97 Venezuela 7.22 2020
98 Cyprus 7.18 2020
99 Ghana 7.15 2020
100 El Salvador 7.10 2020
101 China 7.07 2020
102 Comoros 7.06 2020
103 Sudan 7.05 2020
104 Tonga 7.05 2020
105 Turkmenistan 7.04 2020
106 Mauritania 7.03 2020
107 The Bahamas 6.93 2020
108 Djibouti 6.92 2020
109 Eritrea 6.87 2020
110 Sri Lanka 6.85 2020
111 Pakistan 6.84 2020
112 Hong Kong SAR, China 6.80 2020
112 Seychelles 6.80 2020
114 Bolivia 6.76 2020
115 Brazil 6.61 2020
116 Gabon 6.60 2020
117 Monaco 6.60 2018
118 Indonesia 6.57 2020
119 Congo 6.55 2020
120 Antigua and Barbuda 6.48 2020
121 Vietnam 6.44 2020
122 New Zealand 6.41 2020
123 Ireland 6.40 2020
124 Mongolia 6.35 2020
125 Chile 6.35 2020
126 Lao PDR 6.32 2020
127 Iceland 6.30 2020
127 Australia 6.30 2020
129 Ethiopia 6.29 2020
130 Nepal 6.29 2020
131 Bhutan 6.26 2020
132 Malawi 6.26 2020
133 Tunisia 6.26 2020
134 Kiribati 6.25 2020
135 Uganda 6.24 2020
136 Dominican Republic 6.23 2020
137 Zambia 6.22 2020
138 Afghanistan 6.16 2020
139 Mexico 6.15 2020
140 Tanzania 6.12 2020
141 Kyrgyz Republic 6.10 2020
142 Cambodia 6.00 2020
143 Philippines 5.98 2020
144 Yemen 5.98 2020
145 New Caledonia 5.92 2020
146 Korea 5.90 2020
147 Timor-Leste 5.89 2020
148 Madagascar 5.82 2020
149 Egypt 5.75 2020
150 Botswana 5.72 2020
151 Colombia 5.71 2020
152 Peru 5.66 2020
153 Paraguay 5.59 2020
154 Cabo Verde 5.54 2020
155 Bangladesh 5.52 2020
156 Turkey 5.48 2020
157 Senegal 5.48 2020
158 Kenya 5.35 2020
159 Israel 5.30 2020
160 Malaysia 5.25 2020
161 Costa Rica 5.23 2020
162 Singapore 5.20 2020
163 Samoa 5.19 2020
164 Panama 5.14 2020
165 Ecuador 5.14 2020
166 Vanuatu 5.13 2020
167 Libya 5.12 2020
168 Uzbekistan 5.10 2020
169 Nicaragua 5.09 2020
170 Morocco 5.06 2020
171 Rwanda 5.05 2020
172 Iran 4.84 2020
173 Syrian Arab Republic 4.83 2020
174 Belize 4.80 2020
175 Algeria 4.72 2020
176 Iraq 4.71 2020
177 Guatemala 4.71 2020
177 São Tomé and Principe 4.71 2020
179 Tajikistan 4.69 2020
180 Brunei 4.66 2020
181 Lebanon 4.57 2020
182 Honduras 4.47 2020
183 Solomon Islands 4.22 2020
184 Macao SAR, China 4.10 2020
185 Jordan 3.92 2020
186 Andorra 3.90 2019
187 Saudi Arabia 3.55 2020
188 Cayman Islands 3.30 2020
189 Kuwait 2.92 2020
190 Bahrain 2.44 2020
191 Oman 2.42 2020
192 United Arab Emirates 1.58 2020
193 Qatar 1.29 2020

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Development Relevance: The crude mortality rate is a good indicator of the general health status of a geographic area or population. The crude death rate is not appropriate for comparison of different populations or areas with large differences in age-distributions. Higher crude death rates can be found in some developed countries, despite high life expectancy, because typically these countries have a much higher proportion of older people, due to lower recent birth rates and lower age-specific mortality rates.

Limitations and Exceptions: Vital registers are the preferred source for these data, but in many developing countries systems for registering births and deaths are absent or incomplete because of deficiencies in the coverage of events or geographic areas. Many developing countries carry out special household surveys that ask respondents about recent births and deaths. Estimates derived in this way are subject to sampling errors and recall errors.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The crude death rate is calculated as the number of deaths in a given period divided by the population exposed to risk of death in that period. For human populations the period is usually one year and, if the population changes in size over the year, the divisor is taken as the population at the mid-year. The rate is usually expressed in terms of 1,000 people: for example, a crude death rate of 9.5 (per 1000 people) in a population of 1 million would imply 9500 deaths per year in the entire population. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. Vital rates are based on data from birth and death registration systems, censuses, and sample surveys by national statistical offices and other organizations, or on demographic analysis. Data for the most recent year for some high-income countries are provisional estimates based on vital registers. The estimates for many countries are projections based on extrapolations of levels and trends from earlier years or interpolations of population estimates and projections from the United Nations Population Division.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual