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Crude Death Rate, 1951

1951, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1951 covers 222 countries. North Korea is highest, at 55.824; Vatican City is lowest, at 5.444. The middle country reads 18.167. Against 1950, 222 values changed (44 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1951

HighestNorth Korea

55.824

LowestVatican City

5.444

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, 1951, 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, 1951: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
North KoreaPRKEastern Asia55.824
South KoreaKOREastern Asia37.975
YemenYEMWestern Asia37.410
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia36.647
MaliMLIWestern Africa36.193
OmanOMNWestern Asia34.770
South SudanSSDEastern Africa34.404
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa34.063
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia33.934
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa33.054
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa32.346
GambiaGMBWestern Africa31.949
MalawiMWIEastern Africa31.775
BeninBENWestern Africa31.332
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa31.070
EritreaERIEastern Africa29.592
ChadTCDMiddle Africa29.301
GuineaGINWestern Africa29.291
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa29.199
ComorosCOMEastern Africa28.882
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.792
KenyaKENEastern Africa28.757
IranIRNSouthern Asia28.489
SenegalSENWestern Africa28.298
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia28.166

02In 1951

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. North Korea55.824
  2. South Korea37.975
  3. Yemen37.410
  4. Afghanistan36.647
  5. Mali36.193

Lowest

  1. Vatican City5.444
  2. Guam6.664
  3. Israel6.746
  4. Netherlands7.548
  5. Iceland7.888

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 18.167. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031950 → 1951

Since 1950

What changed between 1950 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 44 · 178rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1951.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The 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 (1951). Crude Death Rate, 1951 [data set], describing 1951. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1951

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07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1951: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1951?

North Korea, at 55.824, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1951 describe?

1951.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1951 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1951?

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, 1951 the newest?

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

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