South Africa - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Africa was 9.38 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.40 in 1960 and a minimum value of 8.04 in 1991.

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 17.40
1961 17.10
1962 16.82
1963 16.53
1964 16.23
1965 15.93
1966 15.61
1967 15.29
1968 14.95
1969 14.61
1970 14.26
1971 13.89
1972 13.52
1973 13.15
1974 12.77
1975 12.41
1976 12.05
1977 11.72
1978 11.40
1979 11.10
1980 10.82
1981 10.53
1982 10.23
1983 9.93
1984 9.62
1985 9.31
1986 9.00
1987 8.70
1988 8.43
1989 8.22
1990 8.08
1991 8.04
1992 8.11
1993 8.29
1994 8.58
1995 8.98
1996 9.50
1997 10.11
1998 10.77
1999 11.45
2000 12.11
2001 12.71
2002 13.23
2003 13.63
2004 13.90
2005 13.99
2006 13.90
2007 13.62
2008 13.21
2009 12.68
2010 12.09
2011 11.48
2012 10.92
2013 10.43
2014 10.04
2015 9.77
2016 9.60
2017 9.50
2018 9.44
2019 9.40
2020 9.38

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population