Lesotho - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Lesotho was 13.69 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.43 in 2007 and a minimum value of 10.05 in 1989.

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 18.55
1961 18.38
1962 18.23
1963 18.09
1964 17.95
1965 17.81
1966 17.65
1967 17.47
1968 17.27
1969 17.03
1970 16.75
1971 16.43
1972 16.07
1973 15.68
1974 15.26
1975 14.81
1976 14.35
1977 13.87
1978 13.39
1979 12.91
1980 12.46
1981 12.02
1982 11.62
1983 11.25
1984 10.92
1985 10.64
1986 10.41
1987 10.23
1988 10.11
1989 10.05
1990 10.07
1991 10.18
1992 10.39
1993 10.70
1994 11.12
1995 11.66
1996 12.35
1997 13.19
1998 14.14
1999 15.16
2000 16.21
2001 17.24
2002 18.21
2003 19.05
2004 19.73
2005 20.20
2006 20.43
2007 20.43
2008 20.24
2009 19.86
2010 19.33
2011 18.67
2012 17.94
2013 17.18
2014 16.43
2015 15.75
2016 15.16
2017 14.66
2018 14.25
2019 13.93
2020 13.69

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population