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Crude Death Rate, 2016

2016, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 2016 covers 222 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 24.844; Qatar is lowest, at 0.920. The middle country reads 7.322. Against 2015, 222 values changed (106 up, 116 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 2016

HighestSouth Sudan

24.844

LowestQatar

0.920

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa24.844
MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.841
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe19.595
BulgariaBGREastern Europe15.063
LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.624
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe14.350
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe14.082
NiueNIUPolynesia13.750
ChadTCDMiddle Africa13.548
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa13.408
RomaniaROUEastern Europe13.325
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.259
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe13.252
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe13.246
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa13.177
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean12.975
HungaryHUNEastern Europe12.895
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.774
RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.636
UkraineUKREastern Europe12.589
BelarusBLREastern Europe12.542
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.228
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa12.054
MontserratMSRCaribbean11.828
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.698

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan24.844
  2. Monaco20.841
  3. Vatican City19.595
  4. Bulgaria15.063
  5. Latvia14.624

Lowest

  1. Qatar0.920
  2. United Arab Emirates1.007
  3. Kuwait1.826
  4. Bahrain1.983
  5. Oman2.017

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.322. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 106 · 116rose · 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 2016.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 7.288. 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 (2016). Crude Death Rate, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/2016

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Other years

07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 2016?

South Sudan, at 24.844, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 2016 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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