Ghana - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Ghana was 7.15 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.46 in 1960 and a minimum value of 7.15 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 18.46
1961 18.19
1962 17.93
1963 17.67
1964 17.43
1965 17.18
1966 16.94
1967 16.70
1968 16.47
1969 16.23
1970 15.99
1971 15.75
1972 15.51
1973 15.26
1974 15.01
1975 14.77
1976 14.53
1977 14.30
1978 14.09
1979 13.89
1980 13.69
1981 13.49
1982 13.28
1983 13.05
1984 12.81
1985 12.53
1986 12.23
1987 11.91
1988 11.58
1989 11.24
1990 10.93
1991 10.68
1992 10.49
1993 10.37
1994 10.32
1995 10.33
1996 10.37
1997 10.42
1998 10.45
1999 10.45
2000 10.40
2001 10.29
2002 10.13
2003 9.93
2004 9.70
2005 9.45
2006 9.19
2007 8.95
2008 8.72
2009 8.53
2010 8.36
2011 8.21
2012 8.07
2013 7.94
2014 7.80
2015 7.66
2016 7.53
2017 7.41
2018 7.31
2019 7.22
2020 7.15

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population