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Crude Death Rate, 1979

1979, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 1979 covers 222 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 40.415; Kuwait is lowest, at 3.547. The middle country reads 9.750. Against 1978, 221 values changed (64 up, 157 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1979

HighestTimor-Leste

40.415

LowestKuwait

3.547

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, 1979, 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, 1979: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia40.415
South SudanSSDEastern Africa26.391
NigerNERWestern Africa25.928
MaliMLIWestern Africa25.924
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia25.538
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa23.731
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa23.307
GuineaGINWestern Africa22.921
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa22.458
MalawiMWIEastern Africa22.226
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa22.213
ChadTCDMiddle Africa22.145
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa21.878
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa21.829
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa21.111
GambiaGMBWestern Africa20.949
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa20.424
BurundiBDIEastern Africa20.160
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa19.778
EritreaERIEastern Africa19.612
UgandaUGAEastern Africa19.476
BeninBENWestern Africa19.437
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia19.369
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa19.124
RwandaRWAEastern Africa18.900

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Timor-Leste40.415
  2. South Sudan26.391
  3. Niger25.928
  4. Mali25.924
  5. Afghanistan25.538

Lowest

  1. Kuwait3.547
  2. Qatar3.570
  3. Andorra3.891
  4. Bahrain4.042
  5. United Arab Emirates4.115

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 9.750. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 64 · 157rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1979.

  • 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 (1979). Crude Death Rate, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1979

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 1979?

Timor-Leste, at 40.415, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 1979 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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