Countries by death rate

Name: Countries by death rate, 2014
Creator: World Bank
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The Central African Republic had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2014, at 21.41 per 1,000 inhabitants. The United Arab Emirates had the lowest, at 1.01 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.43 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.58 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest21.41Central African Republic

Lowest1.01United Arab Emirates

Median7.43215 countries

World7.58History

Top 40 countries, 2014

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2014 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2013
1	Central African Republic	21.41	+7.01 pts
2	Monaco	18.03	+1.79 pts
3	South Sudan	17.93	+7.93 pts
4	Bulgaria	15.4	+0.8 pts
5	Lesotho	14.63	-0.87 pts
6	Latvia	14.3	0 pts
7	Serbia	14.2	+0.2 pts
8	Chad	14.07	-0.16 pts
9	Nigeria	13.74	-0.13 pts
10	Lithuania	13.7	-0.3 pts
11	Ukraine	13.68	-0.3 pts
12	Russia	13.1	+0.1 pts
13	Belarus	12.8	-0.4 pts
13	Hungary	12.8	0 pts
13	Romania	12.8	+0.4 pts
16	Moldova	12.76	+0.2 pts
17	Somalia	12.64	-0.26 pts
18	Georgia	12.57	+0.23 pts
19	Sierra Leone	12.33	-0.25 pts
20	Eswatini	12.21	-0.71 pts
21	Croatia	12.1	+0.2 pts
22	Estonia	11.8	+0.2 pts
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.49	+0.44 pts
24	Guinea	11.07	-0.11 pts
25	Mali	10.89	-0.33 pts
26	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.73	+0.07 pts
27	Germany	10.7	-0.4 pts
28	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.6	-0.25 pts
29	Niger	10.53	-0.22 pts
30	Togo	10.44	-0.27 pts
31	Greece	10.4	+0.2 pts
32	Côte d’Ivoire	10.12	-0.25 pts
33	Japan	10.1	0 pts
33	Portugal	10.1	-0.1 pts
35	Dominica	10.03	-1.69 pts
36	Czechia	10	-0.4 pts
37	Benin	9.99	-0.1 pts
38	Burkina Faso	9.97	-0.31 pts
39	Italy	9.9	-0.1 pts
39	Poland	9.9	-0.3 pts
41	Mozambique	9.78	-0.45 pts
42	Isle of Man	9.71	+0.14 pts
43	Liberia	9.66	+0.3 pts
44	South Africa	9.65	-0.31 pts
45	Equatorial Guinea	9.64	-0.27 pts
46	Zimbabwe	9.62	-0.61 pts
47	Finland	9.6	+0.1 pts
47	Montenegro	9.6	+0.1 pts
49	Namibia	9.57	-0.39 pts
50	North Macedonia	9.5	+0.2 pts
50	Slovakia	9.5	-0.1 pts
52	Cameroon	9.48	-0.28 pts
53	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.44	+0.12 pts
54	Uruguay	9.4	-0.06 pts
55	Tuvalu	9.4	+0.01 pts
56	Guinea-Bissau	9.32	-0.36 pts
57	Belgium	9.3	-0.5 pts
58	Barbados	9.28	+0.03 pts
59	Palau	9.24	+0.19 pts
60	Armenia	9.2	+0.2 pts
60	Austria	9.2	-0.2 pts
60	Slovenia	9.2	-0.2 pts
60	Sweden	9.2	-0.2 pts
64	Angola	9.18	-0.4 pts
65	Denmark	9.1	-0.2 pts
66	Myanmar	8.92	-0.06 pts
67	Cuba	8.88	+0.37 pts
68	Burundi	8.85	-0.36 pts
69	Curaçao	8.8	+0.7 pts
69	United Kingdom	8.8	-0.2 pts
71	Fiji	8.56	+0.13 pts
72	Puerto Rico	8.5	+0.4 pts
72	Spain	8.5	+0.2 pts
74	North Korea	8.42	-0.1 pts
75	France	8.4	-0.3 pts
76	Botswana	8.36	-0.42 pts
77	Netherlands	8.3	-0.1 pts
78	Djibouti	8.28	-0.08 pts
79	United States	8.24	+0.02 pts
80	Haiti	8.21	-0.11 pts
81	Greenland	8.2	+0.3 pts
82	Comoros	8.2	-0.13 pts
83	Bermuda	8.16	+0.19 pts
84	Faroe Islands	8.15	+0.58 pts
85	Malawi	8.08	-0.54 pts
86	Ghana	7.98	-0.19 pts
87	Norway	7.9	-0.2 pts
87	Seychelles	7.9	-0.1 pts
89	Guyana	7.83	-0.21 pts
90	Switzerland	7.8	-0.2 pts
91	Grenada	7.77	+0.1 pts
92	Bolivia	7.73	-0.05 pts
93	Gambia	7.72	-0.19 pts
94	Timor-Leste	7.72	-0.07 pts
95	Mauritius	7.7	+0.2 pts
95	San Marino	7.7	+0.2 pts
97	Zambia	7.69	-0.33 pts
98	Nauru	7.64	-0.05 pts
99	Kazakhstan	7.62	-0.26 pts
100	Bahamas	7.6	+0.11 pts
101	Argentina	7.55	-0.23 pts
102	Afghanistan	7.51	-0.09 pts
103	Saint Lucia	7.5	+0.16 pts
104	Malta	7.5	-0.1 pts
105	Indonesia	7.5	-0.01 pts
106	Madagascar	7.5	-0.04 pts
107	Ethiopia	7.46	-0.32 pts
108	Laos	7.43	-0.07 pts
109	Micronesia	7.37	+0.06 pts
110	Syria	7.35	-0.16 pts
111	Republic of the Congo	7.35	-0.22 pts
112	Canada	7.3	+0.1 pts
113	Gabon	7.27	-0.17 pts
113	Pakistan	7.27	-0.1 pts
115	Tanzania	7.26	-0.24 pts
116	Mauritania	7.26	-0.3 pts
117	El Salvador	7.24	+0.08 pts
118	Albania	7.24	+0.22 pts
119	Sudan	7.21	-0.26 pts
120	Liechtenstein	7.2	+0.5 pts
121	Suriname	7.2	-0.01 pts
122	Kenya	7.15	-0.03 pts
123	China	7.12	-0.01 pts
124	U.S. Virgin Islands	7.1	+0.2 pts
125	Nepal	7.1	+0.04 pts
126	Eritrea	6.99	-0.13 pts
127	Kiribati	6.96	+0.01 pts
128	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.93	-0.22 pts
129	Gibraltar	6.92	+0.07 pts
130	Trinidad and Tobago	6.92	+0.14 pts
131	Luxembourg	6.9	-0.1 pts
132	Papua New Guinea	6.89	-0.09 pts
133	New Zealand	6.87	+0.22 pts
134	Senegal	6.86	-0.23 pts
135	India	6.77	-0.09 pts
136	Thailand	6.75	+0.04 pts
137	Uganda	6.7	-0.34 pts
138	Australia	6.6	+0.2 pts
139	Jamaica	6.55	+0.13 pts
140	Bhutan	6.48	+0.01 pts
140	Rwanda	6.48	-0.12 pts
142	Marshall Islands	6.44	+0.05 pts
143	Turks and Caicos Islands	6.4	+0.19 pts
144	Tonga	6.37	+0.04 pts
145	Sri Lanka	6.34	+0.05 pts
146	Iceland	6.3	-0.4 pts
146	Ireland	6.3	-0.1 pts
148	Hong Kong	6.2	+0.2 pts
149	Peru	6.12	-0.2 pts
150	Turkmenistan	6.12	+0.02 pts
151	Chile	6.12	+0.06 pts
152	Aruba	6.11	+0.69 pts
152	Vietnam	6.11	+0.06 pts
154	Kyrgyzstan	6.1	0 pts
155	Uzbekistan	6.08	-0.03 pts
156	Cambodia	6.01	-0.03 pts
157	Samoa	6.01	+0.06 pts
158	Brazil	6	+0.07 pts
159	Venezuela	6	+0.19 pts
160	Cyprus	5.99	+0.13 pts
161	Antigua and Barbuda	5.95	+0.17 pts
162	Tunisia	5.93	+0.06 pts
163	Egypt	5.88	-0.09 pts
164	Andorra	5.81	-0.11 pts
165	Azerbaijan	5.8	0 pts
166	Guam	5.76	+0.17 pts
167	Morocco	5.72	-0.05 pts
168	Mexico	5.71	+0.03 pts
169	Bangladesh	5.7	-0.07 pts
170	Mongolia	5.7	-0.2 pts
171	Vanuatu	5.64	+0.05 pts
172	Dominican Republic	5.6	+0.05 pts
173	Solomon Islands	5.56	+0.03 pts
174	New Caledonia	5.56	+0.08 pts
175	Philippines	5.56	+0.05 pts
176	Libya	5.44	+0.47 pts
177	American Samoa	5.39	+0.2 pts
178	British Virgin Islands	5.32	+0.13 pts
179	Sint Maarten	5.31	+0.04 pts
180	South Korea	5.3	0 pts
181	Yemen	5.29	-0 pts
182	Tajikistan	5.26	-0.03 pts
183	Paraguay	5.24	+0.05 pts
184	Israel	5.2	0 pts
185	Guatemala	5.2	+0.01 pts
186	Belize	5.17	-0.01 pts
187	Cape Verde	5.15	-0.01 pts
188	Colombia	5.15	+0.11 pts
189	Türkiye	5.1	+0.2 pts
190	Nicaragua	4.96	-0.02 pts
191	Iraq	4.86	-0.2 pts
192	Ecuador	4.82	-0.03 pts
193	Malaysia	4.75	+0.14 pts
194	Cayman Islands	4.73	-0 pts
195	Singapore	4.7	+0.1 pts
196	Panama	4.67	+0.01 pts
197	Algeria	4.65	0 pts
198	Iran	4.61	0 pts
199	Honduras	4.52	-0.04 pts
200	Costa Rica	4.45	+0.12 pts
201	Lebanon	4.27	+0.22 pts
202	Brunei	4.14	+0.12 pts
203	Saint Martin	3.93	+0.09 pts
204	Palestine	3.86	+0.51 pts
205	Northern Mariana Islands	3.62	+0.17 pts
206	Jordan	3.38	-0.22 pts
207	Macao	3.1	-0.1 pts
208	French Polynesia	3.06	+0.06 pts
209	Maldives	2.96	-0.08 pts
210	Saudi Arabia	2.39	-0.11 pts
211	Oman	2.11	-0.08 pts
212	Bahrain	2.07	+0.08 pts
213	Kuwait	1.8	-0.01 pts
214	Qatar	1.05	-0.06 pts
215	United Arab Emirates	1.01	-0.02 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?

The Central African Republic, with 21.41 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2014, according to the World Bank.

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The United Arab Emirates, with 1.01 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2014.

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.