Zambia - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Zambia was 6.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 18.60 in 1997 and a minimum value of 6.22 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 18.47
1961 18.19
1962 17.93
1963 17.69
1964 17.46
1965 17.24
1966 17.01
1967 16.77
1968 16.50
1969 16.22
1970 15.92
1971 15.61
1972 15.31
1973 15.02
1974 14.75
1975 14.52
1976 14.32
1977 14.16
1978 14.03
1979 13.93
1980 13.86
1981 13.82
1982 13.80
1983 13.81
1984 13.85
1985 13.94
1986 14.12
1987 14.39
1988 14.75
1989 15.20
1990 15.71
1991 16.28
1992 16.85
1993 17.41
1994 17.89
1995 18.27
1996 18.52
1997 18.60
1998 18.54
1999 18.31
2000 17.93
2001 17.40
2002 16.74
2003 16.01
2004 15.21
2005 14.38
2006 13.51
2007 12.63
2008 11.74
2009 10.87
2010 10.05
2011 9.30
2012 8.64
2013 8.06
2014 7.57
2015 7.17
2016 6.86
2017 6.63
2018 6.46
2019 6.32
2020 6.22

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population