Death rate, crude
- World average (population-weighted)
- 7.5 ‰
- across 217 countries, 2024
- Latest observation
- 2024
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 1.0 ‰ – 5.5 ‰
- 5.5 ‰ – 6.3 ‰
- 6.3 ‰ – 7.2 ‰
- 7.2 ‰ – 8.5 ‰
- 8.5 ‰ – 10.1 ‰
- 10.1 ‰ – 20.1 ‰
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2024.
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- per 1,000 people (/1,000)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 100
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source217 countries · 14,075 obs. · → 2024 · CC BY 4.0
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. Source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT); Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistical Division
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
1 of 218 countries have no value for 2024.
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=death-rate" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'