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