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Crude Death Rate, 1952

1952, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1952 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 36.932; Vatican City is lowest, at 5.446. The middle country reads 17.582. Against 1951, 222 values changed (19 up, 203 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1952

HighestYemen

36.932

LowestVatican City

5.446

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, 1952, 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, 1952: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia36.932
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia36.063
MaliMLIWestern Africa35.985
OmanOMNWestern Asia34.491
South SudanSSDEastern Africa33.907
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa33.611
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia33.159
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa32.566
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa32.134
GambiaGMBWestern Africa31.725
MalawiMWIEastern Africa31.390
BeninBENWestern Africa30.997
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa29.770
GuineaGINWestern Africa29.293
EritreaERIEastern Africa29.053
ChadTCDMiddle Africa28.947
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa28.912
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.192
IranIRNSouthern Asia28.147
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia28.087
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa27.829
NigerNERWestern Africa27.792
SenegalSENWestern Africa27.766
KenyaKENEastern Africa27.725
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa27.593

02In 1952

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen36.932
  2. Afghanistan36.063
  3. Mali35.985
  4. Oman34.491
  5. South Sudan33.907

Lowest

  1. Vatican City5.446
  2. Guam6.591
  3. Israel6.990
  4. Netherlands7.354
  5. Iceland7.358

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.582. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031951 → 1952

Since 1951

What changed between 1951 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 19 · 203rose · 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 1952.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 21.559. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1952). Crude Death Rate, 1952 [data set], describing 1952. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1952

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07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1952: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1952?

Yemen, at 36.932, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1952 describe?

1952.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1952 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1952?

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, 1952 the newest?

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

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