Cameroon - Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Cameroon was 8.88 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.24 in 1960 and a minimum value of 8.88 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 22.24
1961 21.95
1962 21.66
1963 21.37
1964 21.08
1965 20.79
1966 20.50
1967 20.19
1968 19.86
1969 19.52
1970 19.17
1971 18.80
1972 18.42
1973 18.04
1974 17.66
1975 17.29
1976 16.93
1977 16.59
1978 16.27
1979 15.97
1980 15.69
1981 15.42
1982 15.16
1983 14.91
1984 14.67
1985 14.46
1986 14.28
1987 14.16
1988 14.08
1989 14.05
1990 14.07
1991 14.15
1992 14.27
1993 14.41
1994 14.56
1995 14.69
1996 14.77
1997 14.81
1998 14.77
1999 14.67
2000 14.50
2001 14.27
2002 14.00
2003 13.71
2004 13.41
2005 13.10
2006 12.80
2007 12.50
2008 12.19
2009 11.89
2010 11.58
2011 11.28
2012 10.97
2013 10.66
2014 10.35
2015 10.05
2016 9.76
2017 9.50
2018 9.27
2019 9.06
2020 8.88

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