East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. Development relevance: The crude mortality rate is a good indicator of the general health status of a geographic area or population. The crude death rate is not appropriate for comparison of different populations or areas with large differences in age-distributions. Higher crude death rates can be found in some developed countries, despite high life expectancy, because typically these countries have a much higher proportion of older people, due to lower recent birth rates and lower age-specific mortality rates. Limitations and exceptions: Vital registers are the preferred source for these data, but in many developing countries systems for registering births and deaths are absent or incomplete because of deficiencies in the coverage of events or geographic areas. Many developing countries carry out special household surveys that ask respondents about recent births and deaths. Estimates derived in this way are subject to sampling errors and recall errors. Statistical concept and methodology: The crude death rate is calculated as the number of deaths in a given period divided by the population exposed to risk of death in that period. For human populations the period is usually one year and, if the population changes in size over the year, the divisor is taken as the population at the mid-year. The rate is usually expressed in terms of 1,000 people: for example, a crude death rate of 9.5 (per 1000 people) in a population of 1 million would imply 9500 deaths per year in the entire population. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. Vital rates are based on data from birth and death registration systems, censuses, and sample surveys by national statistical offices and other organizations, or on demographic analysis. Data for the most recent year for some high-income countries are provisional estimates based on vital registers. The estimates for many countries are projections based on extrapolations of levels and trends from earlier years or interpolations of population estimates and projections from the United Nations Population Division.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
23.06468462 1960
14.51547903 1961
11.29125888 1962
11.2538899 1963
12.22255729 1964
11.18340814 1965
10.20190559 1966
9.68184516 1967
9.52489356 1968
9.26410772 1969
8.90243028 1970
8.60198542 1971
8.82665314 1972
8.26315349 1973
8.4407251 1974
8.59491511 1975
8.43191557 1976
7.81427176 1977
7.27330602 1978
7.17537186 1979
7.20562848 1980
7.18184855 1981
7.30132245 1982
7.47611159 1983
7.37000054 1984
7.27842821 1985
7.28357508 1986
7.1322926 1987
7.0484938 1988
6.91753577 1989
6.97372864 1990
6.9588192 1991
6.87197755 1992
6.82930828 1993
6.70441971 1994
6.73688414 1995
6.71238703 1996
6.64735252 1997
6.62533576 1998
6.59607439 1999
6.58766223 2000
6.5591576 2001
6.52997536 2002
6.515453 2003
6.6258909 2004
6.59959812 2005
6.79690349 2006
6.87730648 2007
7.05436417 2008
6.99367361 2009
7.02317946 2010
7.04500129 2011
7.04674492 2012
7.04426759 2013
7.03474597 2014
7.01016871 2015
7.00137585 2016
7.02592297 2017
7.03018867 2018
7.0483746 2019
7.20177064 2020
7.6341306 2021
2022
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. Development relevance: The crude mortality rate is a good indicator of the general health status of a geographic area or population. The crude death rate is not appropriate for comparison of different populations or areas with large differences in age-distributions. Higher crude death rates can be found in some developed countries, despite high life expectancy, because typically these countries have a much higher proportion of older people, due to lower recent birth rates and lower age-specific mortality rates. Limitations and exceptions: Vital registers are the preferred source for these data, but in many developing countries systems for registering births and deaths are absent or incomplete because of deficiencies in the coverage of events or geographic areas. Many developing countries carry out special household surveys that ask respondents about recent births and deaths. Estimates derived in this way are subject to sampling errors and recall errors. Statistical concept and methodology: The crude death rate is calculated as the number of deaths in a given period divided by the population exposed to risk of death in that period. For human populations the period is usually one year and, if the population changes in size over the year, the divisor is taken as the population at the mid-year. The rate is usually expressed in terms of 1,000 people: for example, a crude death rate of 9.5 (per 1000 people) in a population of 1 million would imply 9500 deaths per year in the entire population. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. Vital rates are based on data from birth and death registration systems, censuses, and sample surveys by national statistical offices and other organizations, or on demographic analysis. Data for the most recent year for some high-income countries are provisional estimates based on vital registers. The estimates for many countries are projections based on extrapolations of levels and trends from earlier years or interpolations of population estimates and projections from the United Nations Population Division.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source