World - Death rate

Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)

The value for Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in World was 7.71 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17.71 in 1960 and a minimum value of 7.50 in 2019.

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 17.71
1961 15.00
1962 13.95
1963 13.74
1964 13.79
1965 13.21
1966 12.86
1967 12.60
1968 12.46
1969 12.27
1970 11.99
1971 11.76
1972 11.66
1973 11.42
1974 11.31
1975 11.16
1976 11.00
1977 10.74
1978 10.48
1979 10.31
1980 10.27
1981 10.11
1982 10.02
1983 10.02
1984 9.89
1985 9.78
1986 9.64
1987 9.50
1988 9.40
1989 9.27
1990 9.23
1991 9.16
1992 9.08
1993 9.10
1994 9.01
1995 8.95
1996 8.85
1997 8.74
1998 8.66
1999 8.62
2000 8.55
2001 8.47
2002 8.43
2003 8.38
2004 8.24
2005 8.22
2006 8.14
2007 8.07
2008 8.02
2009 7.91
2010 7.85
2011 7.77
2012 7.71
2013 7.65
2014 7.59
2015 7.58
2016 7.53
2017 7.53
2018 7.53
2019 7.50
2020 7.71

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population