Countries by death rate

Name: Countries by death rate, 2018
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2018, at 21.27 per 1,000 inhabitants. Qatar had the lowest, at 0.88 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.2 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.49 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest21.27Monaco

Lowest0.88Qatar

Median7.2215 countries

World7.49History

Top 40 countries, 2018

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2017
1	Monaco	21.27	+0.21 pts
2	Bulgaria	16.2	+0.1 pts
3	Latvia	15	+0.2 pts
4	Serbia	14.6	-0.2 pts
5	Lithuania	14	-0.1 pts
6	Moldova	13.63	+0.38 pts
7	Romania	13.6	+0.2 pts
8	Hungary	13.5	-0.1 pts
9	Croatia	13.2	0 pts
10	Ukraine	13.16	+0.89 pts
11	Nigeria	12.95	-0.24 pts
12	Chad	12.86	-0.42 pts
13	Belarus	12.7	+0.1 pts
14	Dominica	12.52	-1.11 pts
15	Russia	12.5	+0.1 pts
16	South Sudan	12.42	-13.34 pts
17	Central African Republic	12.4	-4.54 pts
18	Somalia	12.39	-1.68 pts
19	Lesotho	12.2	-0.47 pts
20	Georgia	12.08	-0.58 pts
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.98	-0.32 pts
22	Estonia	11.9	+0.1 pts
23	Germany	11.5	+0.2 pts
24	Greece	11.2	-0.4 pts
25	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.1	+0.18 pts
26	Japan	11	+0.2 pts
27	Poland	10.9	+0.3 pts
27	Portugal	10.9	+0.3 pts
29	Czechia	10.6	+0.1 pts
29	Italy	10.6	-0.2 pts
31	Montenegro	10.4	0 pts
32	Palau	10.34	+0.29 pts
33	Guinea	10.15	-0.21 pts
34	Isle of Man	10.03	+0.06 pts
35	Slovakia	10	+0.1 pts
36	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.92	+0.13 pts
37	Finland	9.9	+0.1 pts
37	Slovenia	9.9	0 pts
39	Cuba	9.87	-0.04 pts
40	Eswatini	9.82	-0.46 pts
41	Mali	9.77	-0.26 pts
42	Niger	9.77	-0.19 pts
43	Togo	9.76	-0.12 pts
44	Belgium	9.7	+0.1 pts
45	Sierra Leone	9.68	-0.65 pts
46	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.65	-0.22 pts
47	Uruguay	9.53	+0.04 pts
48	Austria	9.5	0 pts
48	Denmark	9.5	+0.3 pts
48	North Macedonia	9.5	-0.3 pts
51	Benin	9.48	-0.14 pts
52	Barbados	9.46	+0.03 pts
53	United Kingdom	9.2	0 pts
54	Tuvalu	9.18	-0.08 pts
55	France	9.1	0 pts
55	Spain	9.1	0 pts
55	Sweden	9.1	0 pts
58	North Korea	9.06	+0.24 pts
58	Puerto Rico	9.06	-0.16 pts
60	Fiji	8.94	+0.24 pts
61	Netherlands	8.9	+0.1 pts
62	Myanmar	8.83	-0.03 pts
63	Curaçao	8.8	-0.1 pts
64	South Africa	8.79	-0.04 pts
65	Burkina Faso	8.78	-0.3 pts
66	Côte d’Ivoire	8.78	-0.33 pts
67	Armenia	8.7	-0.4 pts
67	Greenland	8.7	-0.2 pts
69	Bermuda	8.69	-0 pts
70	Equatorial Guinea	8.69	-0.23 pts
71	United States	8.68	+0.04 pts
72	Liberia	8.64	-0.13 pts
73	Mauritius	8.6	+0.5 pts
74	Cameroon	8.43	-0.22 pts
75	Seychelles	8.4	+0.6 pts
76	Grenada	8.33	+0.17 pts
77	Mozambique	8.32	-0.31 pts
78	Zimbabwe	8.32	-0.27 pts
79	Bahamas	8.28	+0.16 pts
80	Namibia	8.13	-0.39 pts
81	Guinea-Bissau	8.1	-0.26 pts
82	Saint Lucia	8.06	+0.07 pts
83	Angola	7.93	-0.26 pts
84	Haiti	7.93	-0.05 pts
85	Switzerland	7.9	0 pts
85	U.S. Virgin Islands	7.9	+0.2 pts
87	Djibouti	7.83	-0.09 pts
88	Faroe Islands	7.75	-1.19 pts
89	Trinidad and Tobago	7.74	+0.25 pts
90	Comoros	7.73	-0.1 pts
91	Canada	7.7	+0.1 pts
91	Norway	7.7	0 pts
93	Malta	7.6	0 pts
94	Argentina	7.58	-0.1 pts
95	Micronesia	7.58	+0.05 pts
96	Nauru	7.58	-0.03 pts
97	Indonesia	7.56	+0.06 pts
98	Bolivia	7.56	-0.03 pts
99	Burundi	7.56	-0.3 pts
100	Timor-Leste	7.51	-0.05 pts
101	Madagascar	7.49	+0.01 pts
102	Ghana	7.45	-0.11 pts
103	El Salvador	7.44	-0.06 pts
104	Guyana	7.41	-0.18 pts
105	Albania	7.38	0 pts
106	Jamaica	7.37	+0.25 pts
107	Afghanistan	7.27	-0.04 pts
108	Liechtenstein	7.2	+0.6 pts
109	Kenya	7.19	+0.06 pts
110	Thailand	7.17	+0.14 pts
111	Kiribati	7.14	+0.05 pts
112	Luxembourg	7.1	0 pts
112	San Marino	7.1	-1.1 pts
114	China	7.08	+0.02 pts
115	Nepal	7.07	0 pts
116	Suriname	7.06	+0.02 pts
117	Kazakhstan	6.97	-0.09 pts
118	Gambia	6.96	-0.16 pts
119	Turks and Caicos Islands	6.92	+0.12 pts
120	Gibraltar	6.91	-0.1 pts
121	Pakistan	6.85	-0.09 pts
122	Gabon	6.82	-0.1 pts
123	New Zealand	6.78	-0.14 pts
124	Zambia	6.78	-0.23 pts
125	Laos	6.77	-0.18 pts
126	Republic of the Congo	6.76	-0.12 pts
127	Marshall Islands	6.71	+0.08 pts
128	Aruba	6.7	+0.11 pts
129	Botswana	6.69	-0.35 pts
129	Venezuela	6.69	-0.12 pts
131	Sri Lanka	6.68	+0.07 pts
132	India	6.67	-0 pts
133	Papua New Guinea	6.66	-0.03 pts
134	Sudan	6.65	-0.09 pts
135	Ethiopia	6.63	-0.15 pts
136	Malawi	6.55	-0.27 pts
137	Syria	6.54	-0.7 pts
138	Eritrea	6.48	-0.12 pts
139	Bhutan	6.48	-0.16 pts
140	Sint Maarten	6.48	+0.29 pts
141	Guam	6.41	+0.12 pts
142	Tonga	6.4	+0.04 pts
143	Hong Kong	6.4	+0.1 pts
143	Iceland	6.4	-0.1 pts
143	Ireland	6.4	+0.1 pts
146	Cyprus	6.38	+0.07 pts
146	Tanzania	6.38	-0.2 pts
148	Brazil	6.34	+0.08 pts
149	Antigua and Barbuda	6.31	+0.08 pts
150	Australia	6.3	-0.2 pts
151	Mauritania	6.29	-0.23 pts
152	Vietnam	6.26	+0.02 pts
153	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.22	-0.15 pts
154	Rwanda	6.21	-0.03 pts
155	Chile	6.2	+0.16 pts
156	Peru	6.17	+0.07 pts
157	Samoa	6.15	+0.05 pts
158	Cambodia	6.13	+0.06 pts
159	Senegal	6.12	-0.16 pts
160	Yemen	6.11	+0.47 pts
161	Tunisia	6.09	+0.02 pts
162	Mexico	6.07	+0.07 pts
163	New Caledonia	6.07	+0.14 pts
164	Turkmenistan	6.04	-0.04 pts
165	American Samoa	6.01	+0.17 pts
166	Uzbekistan	5.93	-0.03 pts
167	Dominican Republic	5.86	+0.06 pts
168	Azerbaijan	5.8	0 pts
168	South Korea	5.8	+0.2 pts
170	Philippines	5.75	+0.19 pts
171	Morocco	5.62	-0.01 pts
172	Uganda	5.61	-0.21 pts
173	Mongolia	5.6	+0.1 pts
174	Vanuatu	5.56	-0.06 pts
175	Egypt	5.53	-0.09 pts
176	Paraguay	5.51	+0.01 pts
177	Andorra	5.48	+0.04 pts
178	Solomon Islands	5.47	+0.03 pts
179	Bangladesh	5.44	-0.07 pts
180	Colombia	5.35	+0.03 pts
181	British Virgin Islands	5.33	-0.31 pts
182	Kyrgyzstan	5.2	-0.2 pts
182	Türkiye	5.2	-0.1 pts
184	Lebanon	5.2	+0.21 pts
185	Cape Verde	5.16	+0.05 pts
186	Guatemala	5.14	+0.05 pts
187	Belize	5.07	-0.02 pts
188	Costa Rica	5.06	+0.09 pts
189	Libya	5.01	-0.09 pts
190	Israel	5	-0.2 pts
190	Singapore	5	0 pts
192	Malaysia	4.95	+0.01 pts
193	Tajikistan	4.9	-0.06 pts
194	Nicaragua	4.83	-0.12 pts
195	Cayman Islands	4.77	+0.03 pts
196	Panama	4.72	-0.06 pts
197	Algeria	4.67	+0.01 pts
198	Ecuador	4.65	-0.42 pts
199	Iran	4.65	+0.01 pts
200	Brunei	4.64	+0.13 pts
201	Saint Martin	4.48	-0.21 pts
202	Honduras	4.45	+0.01 pts
203	Iraq	4.36	-0.44 pts
204	Northern Mariana Islands	4.13	+0.12 pts
205	French Polynesia	3.29	+0.07 pts
206	Palestine	3.22	-0 pts
207	Macao	3.1	-0.2 pts
208	Jordan	3.05	-0.05 pts
209	Maldives	2.64	-0.04 pts
210	Saudi Arabia	2.23	+0.05 pts
211	Bahrain	2.04	+0.05 pts
212	Oman	1.99	-0 pts
213	Kuwait	1.9	+0.04 pts
214	United Arab Emirates	0.96	-0.01 pts
215	Qatar	0.88	-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?

Monaco, with 21.27 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2018, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest death rate?

Qatar, with 0.88 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2018.

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.