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Crude Death Rate, 2020

2020, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 2020 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 22.915; Qatar is lowest, at 1.053. The middle country reads 7.711. Against 2019, 222 values changed (171 up, 51 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 2020

HighestVatican City

22.915

LowestQatar

1.053

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe22.915
MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.439
BulgariaBGREastern Europe17.899
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe16.635
BelarusBLREastern Europe15.784
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean15.615
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.578
RomaniaROUEastern Europe15.528
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe15.173
LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.965
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe14.759
RussiaRUSEastern Europe14.749
UkraineUKREastern Europe14.438
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe14.431
HungaryHUNEastern Europe14.414
NiueNIUPolynesia14.310
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia14.211
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe13.318
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa13.259
MontserratMSRCaribbean12.967
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.963
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean12.927
DominicaDMACaribbean12.706
Saint MartinMAFCaribbean12.649
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa12.586

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City22.915
  2. Monaco21.439
  3. Bulgaria17.899
  4. Serbia16.635
  5. Belarus15.784

Lowest

  1. Qatar1.053
  2. United Arab Emirates1.118
  3. Oman2.444
  4. Saudi Arabia2.460
  5. Bahrain2.586

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.711. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 171 · 51rose · 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 2020.

  • 219 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 9.502. 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 (2020). Crude Death Rate, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/2020

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07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 2020?

Vatican City, at 22.915, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 2020 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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