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

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Nigeria was 11.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 11.42 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 26.38
1961 25.94
1962 25.52
1963 25.12
1964 24.74
1965 24.39
1966 24.06
1967 23.74
1968 23.43
1969 23.12
1970 22.81
1971 22.49
1972 22.16
1973 21.83
1974 21.48
1975 21.13
1976 20.77
1977 20.40
1978 20.05
1979 19.71
1980 19.41
1981 19.15
1982 18.94
1983 18.79
1984 18.69
1985 18.63
1986 18.61
1987 18.61
1988 18.60
1989 18.60
1990 18.58
1991 18.55
1992 18.52
1993 18.49
1994 18.45
1995 18.41
1996 18.35
1997 18.28
1998 18.18
1999 18.06
2000 17.90
2001 17.68
2002 17.40
2003 17.06
2004 16.68
2005 16.27
2006 15.84
2007 15.41
2008 15.00
2009 14.62
2010 14.27
2011 13.94
2012 13.62
2013 13.31
2014 12.99
2015 12.69
2016 12.39
2017 12.11
2018 11.86
2019 11.63
2020 11.42

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