South Sudan - Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Sudan was 10.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.51 in 1960 and a minimum value of 10.22 in 2020.

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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Year Value
1960 32.51
1961 32.06
1962 31.61
1963 31.18
1964 30.74
1965 30.30
1966 29.85
1967 29.41
1968 28.98
1969 28.56
1970 28.15
1971 27.73
1972 27.30
1973 26.87
1974 26.44
1975 26.02
1976 25.64
1977 25.31
1978 25.04
1979 24.81
1980 24.61
1981 24.42
1982 24.22
1983 23.98
1984 23.70
1985 23.35
1986 22.93
1987 22.45
1988 21.93
1989 21.37
1990 20.80
1991 20.21
1992 19.64
1993 19.08
1994 18.55
1995 18.06
1996 17.61
1997 17.20
1998 16.81
1999 16.44
2000 16.08
2001 15.70
2002 15.32
2003 14.92
2004 14.49
2005 14.06
2006 13.61
2007 13.17
2008 12.74
2009 12.34
2010 11.98
2011 11.67
2012 11.40
2013 11.17
2014 10.98
2015 10.83
2016 10.69
2017 10.57
2018 10.46
2019 10.34
2020 10.22

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

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population