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Crude Death Rate, 2023

2023, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Crude Death Rate, 2023 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 25.580; Qatar is lowest, at 0.930. The middle country reads 7.303. Against 2022, 222 values changed (62 up, 160 down), the same countries are covered.

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Crude Death Rate · Data for 2023

HighestVatican City

25.580

LowestQatar

0.930

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, 2023, 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, 2023: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe25.580
MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.971
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean15.411
BulgariaBGREastern Europe15.153
NiueNIUPolynesia14.721
LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.670
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe14.344
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe14.124
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe13.868
MontserratMSRCaribbean13.685
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe13.606
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe13.457
RomaniaROUEastern Europe13.449
BelarusBLREastern Europe13.338
HungaryHUNEastern Europe13.221
UkraineUKREastern Europe13.130
DominicaDMACaribbean12.763
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe12.401
RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.341
JapanJPNEastern Asia12.257
GermanyDEUWestern Europe12.231
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe12.210
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia11.839
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa11.740
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean11.499

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City25.580
  2. Monaco20.971
  3. United States Virgin Islands15.411
  4. Bulgaria15.153
  5. Niue14.721

Lowest

  1. Qatar0.930
  2. United Arab Emirates0.932
  3. Kuwait1.782
  4. Oman1.901
  5. Bahrain2.089

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.303. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 62 · 160rose · 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 2023.

  • 220 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 8.859. 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 (2023). Crude Death Rate, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/crude-death-rate/2023

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Other years

07Questions

Crude Death Rate, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest death rate in Crude Death Rate, 2023?

Vatican City, at 25.580, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Crude Death Rate, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Crude Death Rate, 2023 cover?

222.

Where can I download Crude Death Rate, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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