South Asia - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in South Asia was 7.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21.98 in 1960 and a minimum value of 7.00 in 2016.

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 21.98
1961 21.44
1962 20.91
1963 20.39
1964 19.88
1965 19.39
1966 18.92
1967 18.47
1968 18.05
1969 17.66
1970 17.27
1971 16.89
1972 16.50
1973 16.09
1974 15.67
1975 15.24
1976 14.83
1977 14.43
1978 14.06
1979 13.72
1980 13.42
1981 13.14
1982 12.88
1983 12.64
1984 12.40
1985 12.16
1986 11.91
1987 11.65
1988 11.38
1989 11.11
1990 10.83
1991 10.55
1992 10.27
1993 10.01
1994 9.76
1995 9.52
1996 9.30
1997 9.09
1998 8.90
1999 8.72
2000 8.56
2001 8.41
2002 8.27
2003 8.14
2004 8.02
2005 7.90
2006 7.78
2007 7.66
2008 7.55
2009 7.43
2010 7.32
2011 7.23
2012 7.15
2013 7.08
2014 7.04
2015 7.01
2016 7.00
2017 7.00
2018 7.01
2019 7.02
2020 7.04

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population