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Crude Death Rate, 1950

1950, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1950 covers 222 countries. North Korea is highest, at 73.432; Vatican City is lowest, at 5.151. The middle country reads 18.830.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1950

HighestNorth Korea

73.432

LowestVatican City

5.151

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Crude Death Rate, 1950, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Crude Death Rate, 1950: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia73.432
South KoreaKOREastern Asia47.123
YemenYEMWestern Asia38.424
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia37.418
MaliMLIWestern Africa36.377
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia35.625
OmanOMNWestern Asia35.291
South SudanSSDEastern Africa35.087
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa34.493
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa33.510
GambiaGMBWestern Africa32.573
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa32.531
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa32.494
MalawiMWIEastern Africa32.361
BeninBENWestern Africa31.681
KenyaKENEastern Africa30.489
EritreaERIEastern Africa30.454
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa29.478
ChadTCDMiddle Africa29.370
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa29.303
GuineaGINWestern Africa29.226
SenegalSENWestern Africa28.796
IranIRNSouthern Asia28.583
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia28.347
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa28.320

02In 1950

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. North Korea73.432
  2. South Korea47.123
  3. Yemen38.424
  4. Afghanistan37.418
  5. Mali36.377

Lowest

  1. Vatican City5.151
  2. Israel5.753
  3. Guam6.730
  4. Netherlands7.498
  5. Iceland7.862

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 18.830. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1950.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1950). Crude Death Rate, 1950 [data set], describing 1950. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1950

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06Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1950: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1950?

North Korea, at 73.432, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1950 describe?

1950.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1950 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1950?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Crude Death Rate, 1950 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Crude Death Rate, 2023.

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