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

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Niger was 7.82 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.89 in 1960 and a minimum value of 7.82 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 28.89
1961 28.88
1962 28.88
1963 28.87
1964 28.85
1965 28.83
1966 28.79
1967 28.73
1968 28.66
1969 28.56
1970 28.44
1971 28.30
1972 28.15
1973 27.97
1974 27.78
1975 27.56
1976 27.32
1977 27.04
1978 26.73
1979 26.39
1980 26.05
1981 25.72
1982 25.41
1983 25.13
1984 24.87
1985 24.62
1986 24.37
1987 24.09
1988 23.77
1989 23.40
1990 22.97
1991 22.49
1992 21.95
1993 21.39
1994 20.80
1995 20.19
1996 19.58
1997 18.98
1998 18.38
1999 17.80
2000 17.23
2001 16.67
2002 16.09
2003 15.50
2004 14.90
2005 14.30
2006 13.68
2007 13.07
2008 12.48
2009 11.90
2010 11.35
2011 10.84
2012 10.36
2013 9.92
2014 9.51
2015 9.15
2016 8.82
2017 8.53
2018 8.27
2019 8.03
2020 7.82

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