Upper middle income | 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source
Upper middle income | Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
19.85654221 1960
13.49439424 1961
11.11391271 1962
10.9896107 1963
11.63424855 1964
10.85698273 1965
10.1003358 1966
9.71306787 1967
9.51295245 1968
9.36458703 1969
9.0589978 1970
8.76322209 1971
8.84159542 1972
8.44108645 1973
8.53092929 1974
8.47876222 1975
8.39552064 1976
8.10747425 1977
7.71862496 1978
7.6447348 1979
7.68065222 1980
7.60541682 1981
7.65252735 1982
7.75875278 1983
7.68604492 1984
7.57018378 1985
7.45062038 1986
7.32774659 1987
7.27926541 1988
7.16225312 1989
7.2270044 1990
7.21210183 1991
7.20200146 1992
7.33608867 1993
7.29514538 1994
7.28120184 1995
7.20111335 1996
7.1239833 1997
7.08091899 1998
7.12154036 1999
7.14581097 2000
7.13820229 2001
7.16948899 2002
7.19259815 2003
7.23743125 2004
7.22823736 2005
7.32062873 2006
7.35699619 2007
7.40708809 2008
7.37477946 2009
7.39283922 2010
7.36532857 2011
7.33011433 2012
7.29382614 2013
7.28476816 2014
7.27322937 2015
7.28142197 2016
7.26164216 2017
7.27611268 2018
7.28033356 2019
7.91048924 2020
8.42278239 2021
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Upper middle income | 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
Upper middle income
Records
63
Source