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Field Listing :: Death rate

This entry gives the average annual number of deaths during a year per 1,000 population at midyear; also known as crude death rate. The death rate, while only a rough indicator of the mortality situation in a country, accurately indicates the current mortality impact on population growth. This indicator is significantly affected by age distribution, and most countries will eventually show a rise in the overall death rate, in spite of continued decline in mortality at all ages, as declining fertility results in an aging population.

Country Comparison to the World

Country	Death rate(deaths/1,000 population)


Afghanistan	14.35 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Albania	6.36 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Algeria	4.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


American Samoa	4.62 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Andorra	6.67 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Angola	11.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Anguilla	4.44 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Antigua and Barbuda	5.7 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Argentina	7.35 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Armenia	8.51 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Aruba	8 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Australia	7.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Austria	10.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Azerbaijan	7.11 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bahamas, The	6.96 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bahrain	2.65 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bangladesh	5.67 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Barbados	8.4 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Belarus	13.68 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Belgium	10.7 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Belize	5.93 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Benin	8.59 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bermuda	7.9 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bhutan	6.88 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bolivia	6.67 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	9.53 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Botswana	12.91 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Brazil	6.51 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


British Virgin Islands	4.89 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Brunei	3.43 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Bulgaria	14.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Burkina Faso	12.21 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Burma	8.05 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Burundi	9.12 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cambodia	7.88 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cameroon	11.51 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Canada	8.2 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cape Verde	6.22 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cayman Islands	5.3 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Central African Republic	14.42 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Chad	14.85 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Chile	5.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


China	7.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Christmas Island	-9 deaths/1,000 population


Cocos (Keeling) Islands	-9 deaths/1,000 population


Colombia	5.33 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Comoros	7.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	10.54 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Congo, Republic of the	11.03 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cook Islands	7.66 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Costa Rica	4.44 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cote d'Ivoire	9.8 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Croatia	12.06 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Cuba	7.58 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Curacao	8 deaths/1,000 population (2009)


Cyprus	6.52 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Czech Republic	11.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Denmark	10.21 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Djibouti	7.96 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Dominica	7.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Dominican Republic	4.46 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Ecuador	5.03 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Egypt	4.79 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


El Salvador	5.65 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Equatorial Guinea	8.59 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Eritrea	7.78 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Estonia	13.65 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Ethiopia	8.87 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


European Union	10.1 deaths/1,000 population (2013.est.)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	NA


Faroe Islands	8.67 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Fiji	5.96 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Finland	10.42 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


France	8.96 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


French Polynesia	4.85 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Gabon	13.11 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Gambia, The	7.38 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Gaza Strip	3.15 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Georgia	10.17 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Germany	11.17 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Ghana	7.53 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Gibraltar	8.28 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Greece	10.9 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Greenland	8.3 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Grenada	8.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guam	4.95 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guatemala	4.87 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guernsey	8.61 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guinea	9.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guinea-Bissau	14.77 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Guyana	7.18 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Haiti	8 deaths/1,000 population note: the preliminary 2011 numbers differ significantly from those of 2010, which were strongly influenced by the demographic effect of the January 2010 earthquake; the latest figures more closely correspond to those of 2009 (2013 est.)


Honduras	5.09 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Hong Kong	7.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Hungary	12.71 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Iceland	7.07 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


India	7.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Indonesia	6.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Iran	5.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Iraq	4.65 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Ireland	6.41 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Isle of Man	9.99 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Israel	5.52 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Italy	10.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Jamaica	6.63 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Japan	9.27 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Jersey	7.59 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Jordan	2.8 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Kazakhstan	8.43 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Kenya	7.12 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Kiribati	7.24 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Korea, North	9.15 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Korea, South	6.5 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Kuwait	2.14 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Kyrgyzstan	6.83 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Laos	7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Latvia	13.6 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Lebanon	6.73 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Lesotho	15.02 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Liberia	10.12 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Libya	3.56 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Liechtenstein	6.89 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Lithuania	11.48 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Luxembourg	8.52 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Macau	3.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Macedonia	9 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Madagascar	7.1 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Malawi	12.54 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Malaysia	4.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Maldives	3.8 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mali	13.55 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Malta	8.84 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Marshall Islands	4.27 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mauritania	8.5 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mauritius	6.79 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mexico	4.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Micronesia, Federated States of	4.27 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Moldova	12.61 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Monaco	8.75 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mongolia	5.98 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Montenegro	9.17 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Montserrat	6.55 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Morocco	4.78 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Mozambique	12.57 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Namibia	13.33 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Nauru	5.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Nepal	6.68 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Netherlands	8.48 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


New Caledonia	5.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


New Zealand	7.25 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Nicaragua	5.06 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Niger	13.07 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Nigeria	13.2 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Niue	-9 deaths/1,000 population NA


Norfolk Island	-9 deaths/1,000 population NA


Northern Mariana Islands	3.52 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Norway	9.21 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Oman	3.4 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Pakistan	6.69 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Palau	7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Panama	4.73 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Papua New Guinea	6.54 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Paraguay	4.61 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Peru	5.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Philippines	4.95 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Pitcairn Islands	-9 deaths/1,000 population NA


Poland	10.31 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Portugal	10.91 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Puerto Rico	8.23 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Qatar	1.54 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Romania	11.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Russia	13.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Rwanda	9.41 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	7.22 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	7.06 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saint Lucia	7.21 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	9.18 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.06 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Samoa	5.33 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


San Marino	8.17 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sao Tome and Principe	7.68 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Saudi Arabia	3.32 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Senegal	8.85 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Serbia	13.77 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Seychelles	6.89 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sierra Leone	11.26 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Singapore	3.41 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sint Maarten	4.51 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Slovakia	9.69 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Slovenia	11.12 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Solomon Islands	3.88 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Somalia	14.22 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


South Africa	17.36 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Spain	8.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sri Lanka	6.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sudan	8.09 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Suriname	6.15 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Svalbard	-9 deaths/1,000 population NA


Swaziland	13.95 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Sweden	10.22 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Switzerland	8.08 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Syria	3.67 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Taiwan	6.83 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Tajikistan	6.38 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Tanzania	8.41 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Thailand	7.47 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Timor-Leste	6.28 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Togo	7.6 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Tokelau	-9 deaths/1,000 population NA


Tonga	4.87 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Trinidad and Tobago	8.42 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Tunisia	5.9 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Turkey	6.11 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Turkmenistan	6.18 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Turks and Caicos Islands	3.06 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Tuvalu	8.97 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Uganda	11.26 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Ukraine	15.75 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


United Arab Emirates	2.01 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


United Kingdom	9.33 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


United States	8.39 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Uruguay	9.52 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Uzbekistan	5.29 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Vanuatu	4.2 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Venezuela	5.23 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Vietnam	5.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Virgin Islands	7.95 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Wallis and Futuna	4.84 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


West Bank	3.53 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Western Sahara	8.64 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


World	7.9 deaths/1,000 population note: this rate results in about 107 worldwide deaths per minute or 1.8 deaths every second (2013 est.)


Yemen	6.64 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Zambia	13.17 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)


Zimbabwe	11.4 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)

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