Countries by death rate

Name: Countries by death rate, 2015
Creator: World Bank
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South Sudan had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2015, at 22.03 per 1,000 inhabitants. Qatar had the lowest, at 0.97 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.4 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.58 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest22.03South Sudan

Lowest0.97Qatar

Median7.4215 countries

World7.58History

Top 40 countries, 2015

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2015 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2014
1	South Sudan	22.03	+4.1 pts
2	Monaco	19.5	+1.47 pts
3	Bulgaria	15.8	+0.4 pts
4	Serbia	14.6	+0.4 pts
5	Latvia	14.4	+0.1 pts
5	Lithuania	14.4	+0.7 pts
7	Lesotho	13.93	-0.7 pts
8	Chad	13.88	-0.2 pts
9	Nigeria	13.66	-0.08 pts
10	Hungary	13.4	+0.6 pts
11	Romania	13.2	+0.4 pts
12	Croatia	13.1	+1 pts
13	Moldova	13.09	+0.33 pts
14	Ukraine	13.02	-0.67 pts
15	Russia	13	-0.1 pts
16	Central African Republic	12.68	-8.72 pts
17	Belarus	12.6	-0.2 pts
18	Georgia	12.5	-0.07 pts
19	Somalia	12.29	-0.35 pts
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.91	+0.42 pts
21	Estonia	11.6	-0.2 pts
21	Sierra Leone	11.6	-0.73 pts
23	Eswatini	11.49	-0.72 pts
24	Germany	11.3	+0.6 pts
25	Greece	11.2	+0.8 pts
26	Dominica	10.87	+0.85 pts
27	Guinea	10.86	-0.21 pts
28	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.82	+0.09 pts
29	Italy	10.8	+0.9 pts
30	Mali	10.59	-0.3 pts
31	Czechia	10.5	+0.5 pts
31	Portugal	10.5	+0.4 pts
33	Poland	10.4	+0.5 pts
34	Niger	10.39	-0.15 pts
35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.35	-0.25 pts
36	Japan	10.3	+0.2 pts
37	Togo	10.21	-0.23 pts
38	Montenegro	10.1	+0.5 pts
39	North Macedonia	9.9	+0.4 pts
39	Slovakia	9.9	+0.4 pts
41	Benin	9.9	-0.09 pts
42	Isle of Man	9.85	+0.15 pts
43	Belgium	9.8	+0.5 pts
44	Côte d’Ivoire	9.8	-0.32 pts
45	Burkina Faso	9.66	-0.31 pts
46	Austria	9.6	+0.4 pts
46	Finland	9.6	0 pts
46	Slovenia	9.6	+0.4 pts
49	Liberia	9.56	-0.1 pts
50	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.55	+0.11 pts
51	Palau	9.5	+0.26 pts
52	Uruguay	9.49	+0.1 pts
53	Equatorial Guinea	9.4	-0.25 pts
54	Tuvalu	9.39	-0 pts
55	Mozambique	9.37	-0.41 pts
56	Barbados	9.32	+0.04 pts
57	Armenia	9.3	+0.1 pts
57	Sweden	9.3	+0.1 pts
59	Namibia	9.25	-0.31 pts
60	South Africa	9.22	-0.43 pts
61	Cameroon	9.2	-0.28 pts
61	Denmark	9.2	+0.1 pts
61	United Kingdom	9.2	+0.4 pts
64	Zimbabwe	9.18	-0.44 pts
65	Cuba	9.12	+0.24 pts
66	Spain	9.1	+0.6 pts
67	Guinea-Bissau	8.98	-0.35 pts
68	Myanmar	8.9	-0.02 pts
69	France	8.9	+0.5 pts
70	Angola	8.81	-0.37 pts
71	Curaçao	8.8	0 pts
72	Fiji	8.79	+0.23 pts
73	Netherlands	8.7	+0.4 pts
74	Burundi	8.69	-0.16 pts
75	North Korea	8.44	+0.03 pts
76	United States	8.44	+0.2 pts
77	Greenland	8.4	+0.2 pts
78	Bermuda	8.39	+0.23 pts
79	Syria	8.22	+0.87 pts
80	Switzerland	8.2	+0.4 pts
81	Djibouti	8.16	-0.12 pts
82	Haiti	8.14	-0.06 pts
83	Puerto Rico	8.08	-0.42 pts
84	Comoros	8.06	-0.13 pts
85	Botswana	7.91	-0.45 pts
86	Grenada	7.89	+0.12 pts
87	Ghana	7.85	-0.14 pts
88	Bahamas	7.83	+0.24 pts
89	Mauritius	7.8	+0.1 pts
89	Norway	7.8	-0.1 pts
91	Faroe Islands	7.76	-0.39 pts
92	Guyana	7.76	-0.08 pts
93	Malta	7.7	+0.2 pts
94	Bolivia	7.66	-0.07 pts
95	Timor-Leste	7.65	-0.06 pts
96	Malawi	7.64	-0.44 pts
97	Nauru	7.64	-0 pts
98	Afghanistan	7.53	+0.02 pts
99	Laos	7.51	+0.08 pts
100	Gambia	7.5	-0.21 pts
100	Saint Lucia	7.5	0 pts
102	Seychelles	7.5	-0.4 pts
103	Indonesia	7.5	-0 pts
104	Micronesia	7.48	+0.11 pts
105	Madagascar	7.46	-0.03 pts
106	Argentina	7.45	-0.1 pts
107	Zambia	7.4	-0.28 pts
108	Canada	7.4	+0.1 pts
109	Kazakhstan	7.39	-0.23 pts
110	Nepal	7.39	+0.29 pts
111	El Salvador	7.38	+0.14 pts
112	U.S. Virgin Islands	7.3	+0.2 pts
113	Albania	7.25	+0.01 pts
114	Ethiopia	7.21	-0.25 pts
115	Suriname	7.19	-0.01 pts
116	Republic of the Congo	7.17	-0.18 pts
117	Pakistan	7.16	-0.11 pts
118	Kenya	7.14	-0.01 pts
119	Gabon	7.14	-0.13 pts
120	Trinidad and Tobago	7.13	+0.21 pts
121	San Marino	7.1	-0.6 pts
122	China	7.07	-0.05 pts
123	Sudan	7.07	-0.14 pts
124	Gibraltar	7.02	+0.1 pts
125	Tanzania	7	-0.26 pts
126	Luxembourg	7	+0.1 pts
127	Mauritania	6.99	-0.27 pts
128	Kiribati	6.99	+0.03 pts
129	New Zealand	6.85	-0.02 pts
130	Eritrea	6.83	-0.16 pts
131	Thailand	6.82	+0.06 pts
132	Papua New Guinea	6.8	-0.09 pts
133	India	6.73	-0.04 pts
134	Jamaica	6.72	+0.17 pts
135	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.72	-0.21 pts
136	Liechtenstein	6.7	-0.5 pts
137	Senegal	6.62	-0.25 pts
138	Australia	6.6	0 pts
138	Iceland	6.6	+0.3 pts
140	Bhutan	6.53	+0.05 pts
141	Marshall Islands	6.49	+0.06 pts
142	Turks and Caicos Islands	6.45	+0.05 pts
143	Rwanda	6.4	-0.08 pts
144	Ireland	6.4	+0.1 pts
145	Sri Lanka	6.4	+0.06 pts
146	Tonga	6.38	+0.01 pts
147	Uganda	6.37	-0.33 pts
148	Aruba	6.37	+0.25 pts
149	Hong Kong	6.3	+0.1 pts
150	Vietnam	6.15	+0.04 pts
151	Turkmenistan	6.12	0 pts
152	Chile	6.11	-0.01 pts
153	Antigua and Barbuda	6.07	+0.12 pts
154	Samoa	6.06	+0.05 pts
155	Brazil	6.05	+0.05 pts
156	Cyprus	6.04	+0.05 pts
157	Peru	6.04	-0.09 pts
158	Venezuela	6.03	+0.03 pts
159	Cambodia	6.02	0 pts
160	Uzbekistan	6.01	-0.08 pts
161	Tunisia	6	+0.07 pts
162	Guam	5.94	+0.17 pts
163	Egypt	5.82	-0.06 pts
164	Kyrgyzstan	5.8	-0.3 pts
164	Mongolia	5.8	+0.1 pts
166	Yemen	5.77	+0.48 pts
167	Mexico	5.77	+0.06 pts
168	Dominican Republic	5.76	+0.16 pts
169	Azerbaijan	5.7	-0.1 pts
170	New Caledonia	5.69	+0.13 pts
171	Morocco	5.69	-0.03 pts
172	Andorra	5.67	-0.14 pts
173	Vanuatu	5.65	+0.02 pts
174	Bangladesh	5.64	-0.07 pts
175	Philippines	5.58	+0.03 pts
176	American Samoa	5.57	+0.18 pts
177	Sint Maarten	5.46	+0.15 pts
178	Solomon Islands	5.45	-0.11 pts
179	South Korea	5.4	+0.1 pts
180	Libya	5.37	-0.07 pts
181	Paraguay	5.32	+0.08 pts
182	Israel	5.3	+0.1 pts
183	Tajikistan	5.28	+0.03 pts
184	British Virgin Islands	5.28	-0.04 pts
185	Colombia	5.25	+0.11 pts
186	Guatemala	5.24	+0.05 pts
187	Türkiye	5.2	+0.1 pts
188	Belize	5.14	-0.02 pts
189	Cape Verde	5.14	-0.02 pts
190	Nicaragua	4.99	+0.03 pts
191	Ecuador	4.87	+0.05 pts
192	Malaysia	4.86	+0.12 pts
193	Singapore	4.8	+0.1 pts
194	Iraq	4.74	-0.12 pts
195	Cayman Islands	4.72	-0.01 pts
196	Panama	4.71	+0.04 pts
197	Algeria	4.65	-0 pts
198	Iran	4.62	0 pts
199	Costa Rica	4.52	+0.07 pts
200	Lebanon	4.51	+0.24 pts
201	Honduras	4.48	-0.04 pts
202	Brunei	4.26	+0.12 pts
203	Saint Martin	4.04	+0.1 pts
204	Northern Mariana Islands	3.77	+0.15 pts
205	Palestine	3.32	-0.54 pts
206	Jordan	3.17	-0.21 pts
207	French Polynesia	3.12	+0.06 pts
208	Macao	3.1	0 pts
209	Maldives	2.85	-0.11 pts
210	Saudi Arabia	2.27	-0.13 pts
211	Bahrain	2.08	+0.02 pts
212	Oman	2.06	-0.06 pts
213	Kuwait	1.8	-0 pts
214	United Arab Emirates	1.02	+0.01 pts
215	Qatar	0.97	-0.08 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?

South Sudan, with 22.03 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2015, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest death rate?

Qatar, with 0.97 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2015.

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.