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Crude Death Rate, 1960

1960, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1960 covers 222 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 37.378; Vatican City is lowest, at 5.987. The middle country reads 13.749. Against 1959, 222 values changed (27 up, 195 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1960

HighestSouth Sudan

37.378

LowestVatican City

5.987

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, 1960, 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, 1960: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa37.378
MaliMLIWestern Africa34.347
YemenYEMWestern Asia33.784
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia31.672
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa31.164
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia30.262
MalawiMWIEastern Africa30.101
OmanOMNWestern Asia30.071
ChinaCHNEastern Asia29.789
GambiaGMBWestern Africa29.278
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa28.697
GuineaGINWestern Africa28.234
BeninBENWestern Africa28.056
NigerNERWestern Africa27.633
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa27.514
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa27.055
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa26.972
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia26.952
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa26.933
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia26.630
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa26.457
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa25.791
EritreaERIEastern Africa25.700
ChadTCDMiddle Africa25.572
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa25.552

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan37.378
  2. Mali34.347
  3. Yemen33.784
  4. Afghanistan31.672
  5. Sierra Leone31.164

Lowest

  1. Vatican City5.987
  2. Guam6.062
  3. Singapore6.214
  4. Hong Kong6.450
  5. Israel6.513

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.749. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 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 1960.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 9.766. 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 (1960). Crude Death Rate, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1960

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Other years

07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1960: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1960?

South Sudan, at 37.378, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1960 describe?

1960.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1960 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1960?

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, 1960 the newest?

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

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