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Crude Death Rate, 2005

2005, 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, 2005 covers 222 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 20.455; United Arab Emirates is lowest, at 1.471. The middle country reads 8.034. Against 2004, 221 values changed (86 up, 135 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 2005

HighestLesotho

20.455

LowestUnited Arab Emirates

1.471

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, 2005, 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, 2005: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa20.455
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa17.757
Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa17.026
ChadTCDMiddle Africa16.561
UkraineUKREastern Europe16.220
RussiaRUSEastern Europe16.188
ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa15.893
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa15.692
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa15.501
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa15.303
LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.744
BulgariaBGREastern Europe14.714
BelarusBLREastern Europe14.572
MalawiMWIEastern Africa14.320
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa14.310
NigerNERWestern Africa14.258
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe13.933
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe13.845
MaliMLIWestern Africa13.843
Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa13.539
HungaryHUNEastern Europe13.407
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa13.392
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa13.333
RomaniaROUEastern Europe13.329
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa13.277

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Lesotho20.455
  2. Eswatini17.757
  3. Sierra Leone17.026
  4. Chad16.561
  5. Ukraine16.220

Lowest

  1. United Arab Emirates1.471
  2. Qatar1.634
  3. Kuwait2.088
  4. Bahrain2.258
  5. Northern Mariana Islands2.499

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 8.034. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 86 · 135rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 2005.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 5.357. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

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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 (2005). Crude Death Rate, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/2005

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