Dem. Rep. Congo - Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Dem. Rep. Congo was 9.12 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.79 in 1960 and a minimum value of 9.12 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 22.79
1961 22.59
1962 22.39
1963 22.20
1964 22.00
1965 21.78
1966 21.53
1967 21.27
1968 20.99
1969 20.70
1970 20.42
1971 20.15
1972 19.91
1973 19.71
1974 19.53
1975 19.39
1976 19.25
1977 19.10
1978 18.94
1979 18.76
1980 18.56
1981 18.35
1982 18.14
1983 17.94
1984 17.76
1985 17.59
1986 17.41
1987 17.22
1988 17.03
1989 16.83
1990 16.66
1991 16.53
1992 16.47
1993 16.48
1994 16.54
1995 16.61
1996 16.66
1997 16.63
1998 16.51
1999 16.29
2000 15.96
2001 15.53
2002 15.05
2003 14.55
2004 14.06
2005 13.57
2006 13.12
2007 12.69
2008 12.30
2009 11.93
2010 11.59
2011 11.27
2012 10.98
2013 10.70
2014 10.42
2015 10.16
2016 9.92
2017 9.69
2018 9.48
2019 9.29
2020 9.12

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