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Crude Death Rate, 1996

1996, 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, 1996 covers 222 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 30.849; Kuwait is lowest, at 1.971. The middle country reads 8.593. Against 1995, 222 values changed (68 up, 154 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 1996

HighestSouth Sudan

30.849

LowestKuwait

1.971

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa30.849
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa21.682
MalawiMWIEastern Africa20.127
NigerNERWestern Africa20.112
LiberiaLBRWestern Africa19.693
ChadTCDMiddle Africa18.614
BurundiBDIEastern Africa18.578
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa18.513
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa18.445
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa17.833
MaliMLIWestern Africa17.586
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa17.531
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa17.428
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa16.662
UgandaUGAEastern Africa16.575
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa16.522
GuineaGINWestern Africa16.519
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa16.489
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa16.436
RwandaRWAEastern Africa16.283
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa15.943
Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia15.899
UkraineUKREastern Europe15.204
Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa15.013
RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.533

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan30.849
  2. Sierra Leone21.682
  3. Malawi20.127
  4. Niger20.112
  5. Liberia19.693

Lowest

  1. Kuwait1.971
  2. Qatar1.982
  3. United Arab Emirates2.754
  4. Bahrain2.846
  5. French Polynesia2.882

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.593. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 68 · 154rose · 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 1996.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 10.376. 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 (1996). Crude Death Rate, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/1996

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