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Crude Death Rate, 1955

1955, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1955 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 35.995; Vatican City is lowest, at 5.340. The middle country reads 15.744. Against 1954, 222 values changed (27 up, 195 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1955

HighestYemen

35.995

LowestVatican City

5.340

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, 1955, 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, 1955: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia35.995
MaliMLIWestern Africa35.268
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia34.433
OmanOMNWestern Asia33.269
South SudanSSDEastern Africa32.675
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa32.666
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia31.832
GambiaGMBWestern Africa31.291
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa30.846
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa30.844
MalawiMWIEastern Africa30.786
BeninBENWestern Africa29.913
GuineaGINWestern Africa29.109
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia27.863
EritreaERIEastern Africa27.782
NigerNERWestern Africa27.781
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa27.654
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa27.546
ChadTCDMiddle Africa27.472
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa27.352
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa27.130
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa27.012
IranIRNSouthern Asia26.703
EgyptEGYNorthern Africa26.409
SenegalSENWestern Africa26.383

02In 1955

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen35.995
  2. Mali35.268
  3. Afghanistan34.433
  4. Oman33.269
  5. South Sudan32.675

Lowest

  1. Vatican City5.340
  2. Guam6.430
  3. Israel6.738
  4. Iceland6.988
  5. Puerto Rico7.095

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 15.744. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031954 → 1955

Since 1954

What changed between 1954 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 27 · 195rose · 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 1955.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 21.010. 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 (1955). Crude Death Rate, 1955 [data set], describing 1955. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1955

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Other years

07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1955: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1955?

Yemen, at 35.995, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1955 describe?

1955.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1955 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1955?

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, 1955 the newest?

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

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