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

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Maldives was 2.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.04 in 1960 and a minimum value of 2.73 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 28.04
1961 27.63
1962 27.12
1963 26.55
1964 25.91
1965 25.22
1966 24.49
1967 23.72
1968 22.92
1969 22.09
1970 21.25
1971 20.40
1972 19.53
1973 18.67
1974 17.82
1975 17.00
1976 16.22
1977 15.50
1978 14.83
1979 14.21
1980 13.65
1981 13.13
1982 12.65
1983 12.18
1984 11.71
1985 11.24
1986 10.76
1987 10.25
1988 9.74
1989 9.21
1990 8.68
1991 8.15
1992 7.64
1993 7.14
1994 6.68
1995 6.25
1996 5.85
1997 5.50
1998 5.18
1999 4.89
2000 4.64
2001 4.42
2002 4.25
2003 4.10
2004 3.99
2005 3.89
2006 3.81
2007 3.74
2008 3.67
2009 3.60
2010 3.53
2011 3.45
2012 3.35
2013 3.26
2014 3.16
2015 3.06
2016 2.97
2017 2.88
2018 2.81
2019 2.76
2020 2.73

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