Nigeria - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Nigeria was 11.42 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.38 in 1960 and a minimum value of 11.42 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 26.38
1961 25.94
1962 25.52
1963 25.12
1964 24.74
1965 24.39
1966 24.06
1967 23.74
1968 23.43
1969 23.12
1970 22.81
1971 22.49
1972 22.16
1973 21.83
1974 21.48
1975 21.13
1976 20.77
1977 20.40
1978 20.05
1979 19.71
1980 19.41
1981 19.15
1982 18.94
1983 18.79
1984 18.69
1985 18.63
1986 18.61
1987 18.61
1988 18.60
1989 18.60
1990 18.58
1991 18.55
1992 18.52
1993 18.49
1994 18.45
1995 18.41
1996 18.35
1997 18.28
1998 18.18
1999 18.06
2000 17.90
2001 17.68
2002 17.40
2003 17.06
2004 16.68
2005 16.27
2006 15.84
2007 15.41
2008 15.00
2009 14.62
2010 14.27
2011 13.94
2012 13.62
2013 13.31
2014 12.99
2015 12.69
2016 12.39
2017 12.11
2018 11.86
2019 11.63
2020 11.42

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population