Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2017

Crude Death Rate, 2017

2017, 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, 2017 covers 222 countries. South Sudan is highest, at 25.765; Qatar is lowest, at 0.901. The middle country reads 7.360. Against 2016, 221 values changed (115 up, 106 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Crude Death Rate · Data for 2017

HighestSouth Sudan

25.765

LowestQatar

0.901

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
South SudanSSDEastern Africa25.765
MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.068
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe20.732
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa16.943
BulgariaBGREastern Europe15.490
LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.844
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe14.295
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe14.179
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa14.073
NiueNIUPolynesia14.049
DominicaDMACaribbean13.626
RomaniaROUEastern Europe13.609
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean13.538
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe13.496
HungaryHUNEastern Europe13.405
ChadTCDMiddle Africa13.277
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe13.253
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa13.192
LesothoLSOSouthern Africa12.664
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.654
BelarusBLREastern Europe12.542
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe12.304
UkraineUKREastern Europe12.265
RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.095
MontserratMSRCaribbean11.949

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. South Sudan25.765
  2. Monaco21.068
  3. Vatican City20.732
  4. Central African Republic16.943
  5. Bulgaria15.490

Lowest

  1. Qatar0.901
  2. United Arab Emirates0.970
  3. Kuwait1.861
  4. Bahrain1.987
  5. Oman1.993

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.360. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 115 · 106rose · 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 2017.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 7.494. 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 (2017). Crude Death Rate, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/2017

0674 held

Other years