Countries by death rate, 2024

Name: Countries by death rate, 2024
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Monaco had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2024, at 20.14 per 1,000 inhabitants. The United Arab Emirates had the lowest, at 0.97 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.18 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.55 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest20.14Monaco

Lowest0.97United Arab Emirates

Median7.18215 countries

World7.55History

Top 40 countries, 2024

CSV Chart (SVG)

per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: World Bank. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2024 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2023
1	Monaco	20.14	-0.83 pts
2	Bulgaria	15.6	-0.1 pts
3	Serbia	14.9	+0.2 pts
4	Latvia	14.3	-0.6 pts
5	Moldova	13.82	+0.22 pts
6	Ukraine	13.6	+0.47 pts
7	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.52	+0.06 pts
8	Hungary	13.4	0 pts
9	Japan	13.3	+0.3 pts
10	Croatia	13.2	-0.1 pts
11	Belarus	13.14	-0.2 pts
12	Lithuania	13	+0.1 pts
13	Romania	12.8	0 pts
14	Dominica	12.62	-0.14 pts
15	Russia	12.4	+0.3 pts
16	Germany	12.1	-0.2 pts
16	Greece	12.1	-0.1 pts
18	Georgia	11.84	-0 pts
19	Palau	11.73	+0.23 pts
20	Nigeria	11.64	-0.1 pts
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.54	+0.04 pts
22	Estonia	11.5	-0.2 pts
23	Poland	11.2	+0.1 pts
24	North Macedonia	11.1	+0.1 pts
24	Portugal	11.1	-0.1 pts
26	Chad	11.08	+0.05 pts
27	Italy	11	-0.4 pts
28	Isle of Man	10.65	+0.17 pts
29	Lesotho	10.48	-0.17 pts
30	Finland	10.4	-0.6 pts
31	Cuba	10.38	+0.23 pts
32	Czechia	10.3	-0.1 pts
32	Puerto Rico	10.3	-0.4 pts
34	Barbados	10.23	-0.38 pts
35	Montenegro	10.2	+0.1 pts
36	Curaçao	10.1	+0.3 pts
36	Slovenia	10.1	-0.1 pts
38	Mauritius	10	+0.5 pts
39	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.98	+0.01 pts
40	Uruguay	9.93	+0.15 pts
41	Slovakia	9.9	-0.1 pts
42	North Korea	9.86	+0.17 pts
43	South Sudan	9.82	+0.21 pts
44	Somalia	9.74	-0.09 pts
45	United Kingdom	9.7	+0.18 pts
46	Saint Martin	9.66	+0.38 pts
47	Austria	9.6	-0.2 pts
47	Netherlands	9.6	+0.1 pts
49	Fiji	9.51	+0.26 pts
50	Belgium	9.5	+0.1 pts
50	Denmark	9.5	-0.3 pts
52	France	9.4	0 pts
53	Central African Republic	9.38	-0.04 pts
54	Greenland	9.3	-0.1 pts
55	Tuvalu	9.27	+0.13 pts
56	South Africa	9.24	-0 pts
57	U.S. Virgin Islands	9.2	+0.2 pts
58	Myanmar	9.18	+0.02 pts
59	Thailand	9.03	+0.14 pts
60	Guinea	9.03	-0.1 pts
61	Bermuda	9	+0.15 pts
62	United States	9	-0.2 pts
63	Grenada	8.92	+0.06 pts
64	Spain	8.9	-0.1 pts
65	Bahamas	8.77	+0.06 pts
66	Trinidad and Tobago	8.74	+0.37 pts
67	Niger	8.72	-0.14 pts
68	Saint Lucia	8.71	+0.1 pts
69	Benin	8.71	-0.09 pts
70	Sweden	8.6	-0.4 pts
71	Mali	8.51	-0.12 pts
72	Togo	8.49	-0.24 pts
73	Albania	8.46	+0.13 pts
74	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.42	-0.1 pts
75	Armenia	8.4	+0.2 pts
76	Sint Maarten	8.3	+0.18 pts
77	Sierra Leone	8.21	-0.08 pts
78	Jamaica	8.21	+0.13 pts
79	Faroe Islands	8.2	+0.56 pts
80	Liberia	8.02	-0.05 pts
81	Switzerland	8	-0.1 pts
82	Burkina Faso	7.92	-0.05 pts
83	Canada	7.9	-0.3 pts
83	Norway	7.9	0 pts
85	Equatorial Guinea	7.85	-0.03 pts
86	Haiti	7.8	-0.01 pts
87	Sri Lanka	7.8	-0.4 pts
88	Aruba	7.78	+0.2 pts
89	China	7.76	-0.11 pts
90	Argentina	7.73	+0.06 pts
91	Eswatini	7.73	+0.03 pts
92	Micronesia	7.71	+0.07 pts
93	Venezuela	7.68	+0.12 pts
94	Indonesia	7.62	+0.09 pts
95	Côte d’Ivoire	7.61	-0.05 pts
96	Nauru	7.57	+0.05 pts
97	Liechtenstein	7.5	+0.7 pts
97	San Marino	7.5	-0.8 pts
99	Zimbabwe	7.5	-0.12 pts
100	Djibouti	7.49	+0.03 pts
101	Guyana	7.48	+0.16 pts
102	Madagascar	7.47	-0.06 pts
103	El Salvador	7.47	-0.05 pts
104	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.39	-0.01 pts
105	Malta	7.3	0 pts
106	American Samoa	7.29	+0.27 pts
107	Timor-Leste	7.22	-0.05 pts
108	Kenya	7.18	-0.03 pts
109	Bolivia	7.17	0 pts
110	Marshall Islands	7.13	+0.16 pts
111	New Zealand	7.13	-0.16 pts
112	Comoros	7.12	-0.07 pts
113	Brazil	7.07	-0.01 pts
114	Kiribati	7.06	+0.01 pts
115	Cameroon	7.03	-0.12 pts
116	Antigua and Barbuda	7.03	+0.13 pts
117	Cyprus	7.02	-0.05 pts
118	Ghana	7.01	-0.03 pts
118	Guinea-Bissau	7.01	-0.04 pts
120	Hong Kong	7	-0.3 pts
120	Seychelles	7	-0.3 pts
120	South Korea	7	+0.1 pts
123	Nepal	6.97	+0.04 pts
124	Guam	6.92	+0.05 pts
125	Mozambique	6.91	-0.09 pts
126	Australia	6.88	+0.01 pts
127	Suriname	6.84	+0.19 pts
128	Angola	6.84	-0.08 pts
129	Iceland	6.8	+0.1 pts
130	Kazakhstan	6.7	-0.01 pts
131	Burundi	6.67	-0.05 pts
132	Vietnam	6.65	+0.07 pts
133	Luxembourg	6.6	0 pts
134	Gibraltar	6.59	+0.08 pts
135	India	6.59	-0.02 pts
136	Chile	6.58	+0.08 pts
137	Papua New Guinea	6.55	+0.04 pts
138	Libya	6.53	-0.12 pts
139	Ireland	6.5	-0.1 pts
140	Cambodia	6.45	+0.06 pts
141	Pakistan	6.45	-0.02 pts
142	Tonga	6.44	0 pts
143	Philippines	6.35	+0.11 pts
144	Sudan	6.34	-0.07 pts
145	New Caledonia	6.25	-0.02 pts
146	Dominican Republic	6.25	-0 pts
146	Gambia	6.25	-0.04 pts
148	Republic of the Congo	6.24	-0.05 pts
149	Gabon	6.23	-0.04 pts
150	Mexico	6.22	+0.06 pts
151	Laos	6.19	-0.03 pts
152	Namibia	6.18	+0.01 pts
153	Samoa	6.16	0 pts
154	Andorra	6.14	+0.06 pts
155	Tunisia	6.13	+0.06 pts
156	Bhutan	6.07	-0.04 pts
157	British Virgin Islands	6.05	+0.08 pts
158	Lebanon	6.04	+0.07 pts
159	Uzbekistan	6.03	-0.17 pts
160	Singapore	6	-0.2 pts
161	Eritrea	6	-0.05 pts
162	Rwanda	5.9	-0.04 pts
163	Ethiopia	5.88	-0.08 pts
164	Palestine	5.87	-1.33 pts
165	Turkmenistan	5.84	+0.06 pts
166	Azerbaijan	5.8	-0.1 pts
167	Botswana	5.74	+0.01 pts
168	Morocco	5.73	+0.09 pts
169	Tanzania	5.72	-0.07 pts
170	Afghanistan	5.7	-0.09 pts
171	Türkiye	5.7	-0.5 pts
172	Paraguay	5.7	-0.01 pts
173	Peru	5.6	+0.1 pts
174	Costa Rica	5.57	+0.11 pts
175	São Tomé and Príncipe	5.53	-0.04 pts
176	Egypt	5.51	+0.04 pts
177	Senegal	5.51	-0.08 pts
178	Mongolia	5.5	0 pts
179	Colombia	5.47	+0.07 pts
180	Mauritania	5.41	-0.11 pts
181	Brunei	5.34	+0.1 pts
182	Israel	5.3	+0.1 pts
183	Malawi	5.29	-0.07 pts
184	Malaysia	5.27	+0.11 pts
185	Ecuador	5.21	+0.08 pts
186	Zambia	5.17	-0.04 pts
187	Bangladesh	5.11	+0.1 pts
188	Cape Verde	5.1	+0.04 pts
189	Solomon Islands	5.08	-0.06 pts
190	Vanuatu	5.02	-0.07 pts
191	Northern Mariana Islands	4.98	+0.27 pts
192	Belize	4.96	+0.04 pts
193	Syria	4.93	-0.11 pts
194	Panama	4.91	+0.14 pts
195	Cayman Islands	4.86	+0.06 pts
196	Guatemala	4.86	+0.03 pts
197	Uganda	4.77	-0.07 pts
198	Iran	4.75	+0.08 pts
199	Yemen	4.73	-0.06 pts
200	Nicaragua	4.64	+0.05 pts
201	Algeria	4.62	-0.02 pts
202	Tajikistan	4.59	+0.01 pts
203	Honduras	4.52	+0.04 pts
204	Kyrgyzstan	4.4	0 pts
205	Iraq	4.17	+0.03 pts
206	French Polynesia	3.81	+0.16 pts
207	Macao	3.6	-0.8 pts
208	Jordan	3.12	+0.07 pts
209	Maldives	2.36	+0.03 pts
210	Saudi Arabia	2.34	-0 pts
211	Bahrain	2.21	+0.12 pts
212	Oman	1.9	0 pts
213	Kuwait	1.52	-0.01 pts
214	Qatar	1.05	+0.12 pts
215	United Arab Emirates	0.97	+0.04 pts

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About this ranking

Deaths per 1,000 residents during the year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Death rate, crude, per 1,000 people (SP.DYN.CDRT.IN). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN. Retrieved 2026-10-09.

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Which country has the highest death rate?

Monaco, with 20.14 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2024, according to the World Bank.

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The United Arab Emirates, with 0.97 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2024.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Death rate, crude, per 1,000 people (SP.DYN.CDRT.IN). Retrieved 2026-10-09.