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Crude Death Rate, 1972

1972, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1972 covers 222 countries. Burundi is highest, at 40.362; Andorra is lowest, at 4.331. The middle country reads 10.339. Against 1971, 222 values changed (44 up, 178 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1972

HighestBurundi

40.362

LowestAndorra

4.331

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, 1972, 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, 1972: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
BurundiBDIEastern Africa40.362
South SudanSSDEastern Africa33.403
MaliMLIWestern Africa30.419
NigerNERWestern Africa28.196
MalawiMWIEastern Africa27.670
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia25.882
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa25.766
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa25.121
GuineaGINWestern Africa25.026
YemenYEMWestern Asia24.634
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa24.248
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia23.834
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa23.680
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa23.416
GambiaGMBWestern Africa23.352
ChadTCDMiddle Africa23.343
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa23.228
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa23.050
SenegalSENWestern Africa22.764
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia22.704
BeninBENWestern Africa22.681
EritreaERIEastern Africa22.584
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa22.131
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa21.753
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia21.353

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Burundi40.362
  2. South Sudan33.403
  3. Mali30.419
  4. Niger28.196
  5. Malawi27.670

Lowest

  1. Andorra4.331
  2. Taiwan4.580
  3. Kuwait4.862
  4. Sint Maarten4.882
  5. Guam4.936

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 10.339. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 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 1972.

  • 218 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 12.648. 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 (1972). Crude Death Rate, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1972

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07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1972?

Burundi, at 40.362, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1972 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1972?

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, 1972 the newest?

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

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