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Crude Death Rate, 1968

1968, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The crude death rate is the number of people who die in a year for every 1,000 people living in a country. It is not a measure of how healthy a country is: because it takes no account of age, an old population records more deaths per head than a young one even where each person's chance of dying is lower.

Crude Death Rate, 1968 covers 222 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 40.666; Hong Kong is lowest, at 4.012. The middle country reads 11.145. Against 1967, 222 values changed (47 up, 175 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1968

HighestSouth Sudan

40.666

LowestHong Kong

4.012

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa40.666
MaliMLIWestern Africa32.299
MalawiMWIEastern Africa29.352
YemenYEMWestern Asia29.212
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia27.801
NigerNERWestern Africa27.785
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa27.311
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia26.257
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa26.170
GuineaGINWestern Africa26.070
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa25.951
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa25.502
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa25.297
GambiaGMBWestern Africa25.209
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa24.702
BeninBENWestern Africa24.535
SenegalSENWestern Africa24.246
ChadTCDMiddle Africa24.045
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia23.595
EritreaERIEastern Africa22.985
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa22.736
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa22.548
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa22.374
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa22.205
OmanOMNWestern Asia22.022

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan40.666
  2. Mali32.299
  3. Malawi29.352
  4. Yemen29.212
  5. Afghanistan27.801

Lowest

  1. Hong Kong4.012
  2. Andorra4.855
  3. Guam5.195
  4. Singapore5.441
  5. Taiwan5.451

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 11.145. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 47 · 175rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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Using the series

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1968.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 13.415. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UN DESA Population Division (1968). Crude Death Rate, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1968

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