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

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Belgium was 11.00 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.70 in 1968 and a minimum value of 9.30 in 2014.

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 12.40
1961 11.60
1962 12.20
1963 12.60
1964 11.70
1965 12.20
1966 12.10
1967 12.00
1968 12.70
1969 12.50
1970 12.30
1971 12.40
1972 12.10
1973 12.10
1974 11.90
1975 12.20
1976 12.10
1977 11.50
1978 11.70
1979 11.40
1980 11.50
1981 11.40
1982 11.40
1983 11.60
1984 11.20
1985 11.30
1986 11.30
1987 10.70
1988 10.60
1989 10.80
1990 10.40
1991 10.40
1992 10.40
1993 10.60
1994 10.30
1995 10.30
1996 10.30
1997 10.20
1998 10.30
1999 10.30
2000 10.20
2001 10.10
2002 10.20
2003 10.30
2004 9.70
2005 9.90
2006 9.60
2007 9.50
2008 9.80
2009 9.60
2010 9.70
2011 9.40
2012 9.80
2013 9.80
2014 9.30
2015 9.80
2016 9.50
2017 9.60
2018 9.70
2019 9.50
2020 11.00

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