Countries by death rate

Name: Countries by death rate, 2019
Creator: World Bank
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The Central African Republic had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2019, at 30.25 per 1,000 inhabitants. Qatar had the lowest, at 0.84 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.3 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.47 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest30.25Central African Republic

Lowest0.84Qatar

Median7.3215 countries

World7.47History

Top 40 countries, 2019

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2019 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2018
1	Central African Republic	30.25	+17.85 pts
2	Monaco	22.36	+1.09 pts
3	Bulgaria	16.3	+0.1 pts
4	Serbia	14.6	0 pts
5	Latvia	14.5	-0.5 pts
6	Moldova	13.92	+0.29 pts
7	Lithuania	13.6	-0.4 pts
8	Hungary	13.4	-0.1 pts
8	Romania	13.4	-0.2 pts
10	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.1	+1.12 pts
11	Croatia	13.1	-0.1 pts
12	Ukraine	13.08	-0.08 pts
13	Belarus	12.8	+0.1 pts
14	Nigeria	12.68	-0.27 pts
15	Dominica	12.61	+0.09 pts
16	Chad	12.52	-0.34 pts
17	Russia	12.3	-0.2 pts
18	Georgia	12.08	0 pts
19	Lesotho	11.83	-0.37 pts
20	Greece	11.7	+0.5 pts
21	Estonia	11.6	-0.3 pts
22	Germany	11.3	-0.2 pts
23	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.29	+0.19 pts
24	Japan	11.2	+0.2 pts
25	Somalia	10.91	-1.48 pts
26	Poland	10.8	-0.1 pts
26	Portugal	10.8	-0.1 pts
28	Palau	10.63	+0.29 pts
29	Italy	10.6	0 pts
30	Czechia	10.5	-0.1 pts
30	Montenegro	10.5	+0.1 pts
32	Isle of Man	10.09	+0.05 pts
33	Cuba	10.05	+0.18 pts
34	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.99	+0.07 pts
35	Guinea	9.95	-0.21 pts
36	Slovenia	9.9	0 pts
37	Finland	9.8	-0.1 pts
37	North Macedonia	9.8	+0.3 pts
37	Slovakia	9.8	-0.2 pts
40	Uruguay	9.75	+0.22 pts
41	Greenland	9.7	+1 pts
42	Togo	9.58	-0.18 pts
43	Niger	9.57	-0.2 pts
44	Barbados	9.52	+0.06 pts
45	Belgium	9.5	-0.2 pts
46	Mali	9.48	-0.3 pts
47	Democratic Republic of the Congo	9.46	-0.19 pts
48	Austria	9.4	-0.1 pts
49	Sierra Leone	9.39	-0.29 pts
50	Eswatini	9.37	-0.45 pts
51	Benin	9.34	-0.14 pts
52	North Korea	9.33	+0.26 pts
53	Bahamas	9.32	+1.04 pts
54	South Sudan	9.3	-3.12 pts
55	Denmark	9.3	-0.2 pts
56	Puerto Rico	9.19	+0.13 pts
57	Tuvalu	9.19	+0.01 pts
58	France	9.1	0 pts
59	Fiji	9.09	+0.15 pts
60	United Kingdom	9.02	-0.18 pts
61	Mauritius	8.9	+0.3 pts
62	Myanmar	8.85	+0.02 pts
63	Armenia	8.8	+0.1 pts
63	Curaçao	8.8	0 pts
63	Netherlands	8.8	-0.1 pts
63	Spain	8.8	-0.3 pts
67	South Africa	8.75	-0.04 pts
68	Bermuda	8.71	+0.02 pts
69	United States	8.7	+0.02 pts
70	Sweden	8.6	-0.5 pts
71	Burkina Faso	8.56	-0.21 pts
72	Liberia	8.51	-0.13 pts
73	Equatorial Guinea	8.5	-0.19 pts
74	Côte d’Ivoire	8.49	-0.28 pts
75	Grenada	8.48	+0.15 pts
76	Saint Lucia	8.43	+0.37 pts
77	Zimbabwe	8.28	-0.04 pts
78	U.S. Virgin Islands	8.2	+0.3 pts
79	Cameroon	8.16	-0.27 pts
80	Seychelles	8.1	-0.3 pts
81	Mozambique	8.08	-0.25 pts
82	Faroe Islands	7.97	+0.23 pts
83	Trinidad and Tobago	7.95	+0.21 pts
84	Switzerland	7.9	0 pts
85	Haiti	7.88	-0.05 pts
86	Guinea-Bissau	7.86	-0.24 pts
87	Djibouti	7.8	-0.03 pts
88	Namibia	7.72	-0.41 pts
89	Angola	7.7	-0.23 pts
90	Argentina	7.68	+0.09 pts
91	Comoros	7.64	-0.09 pts
92	Canada	7.6	-0.1 pts
92	Micronesia	7.6	+0.02 pts
92	Norway	7.6	-0.1 pts
95	Nauru	7.57	-0 pts
96	Indonesia	7.56	-0 pts
97	Bolivia	7.56	-0.01 pts
98	Jamaica	7.53	+0.17 pts
99	Madagascar	7.52	+0.03 pts
100	Guyana	7.5	+0.1 pts
101	Timor-Leste	7.48	-0.04 pts
102	Albania	7.47	+0.1 pts
103	El Salvador	7.44	0 pts
104	Thailand	7.42	+0.25 pts
105	Burundi	7.39	-0.17 pts
106	Republic of the Congo	7.34	+0.59 pts
107	Ghana	7.34	-0.11 pts
108	Malta	7.3	-0.3 pts
109	Kenya	7.29	+0.11 pts
110	San Marino	7.2	+0.1 pts
111	Kiribati	7.17	+0.03 pts
112	China	7.09	+0.01 pts
113	Afghanistan	7.06	-0.21 pts
114	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.04	+0.12 pts
115	Suriname	7.03	-0.03 pts
116	Nepal	7.02	-0.05 pts
117	Kazakhstan	6.91	-0.06 pts
118	Luxembourg	6.9	-0.2 pts
119	Saint Martin	6.89	+2.41 pts
120	New Zealand	6.88	+0.1 pts
121	Sint Maarten	6.88	+0.4 pts
122	Gibraltar	6.81	-0.1 pts
123	Gambia	6.81	-0.16 pts
124	Venezuela	6.8	+0.12 pts
125	Liechtenstein	6.8	-0.4 pts
126	Marshall Islands	6.79	+0.07 pts
127	Pakistan	6.77	-0.08 pts
128	Australia	6.7	+0.4 pts
128	Sri Lanka	6.7	+0.02 pts
130	Gabon	6.69	-0.12 pts
131	India	6.67	0 pts
132	Papua New Guinea	6.62	-0.04 pts
133	Cyprus	6.6	+0.22 pts
134	Laos	6.6	-0.17 pts
135	Sudan	6.55	-0.1 pts
136	Guam	6.53	+0.12 pts
137	Samoa	6.53	+0.38 pts
138	Hong Kong	6.5	+0.1 pts
139	Zambia	6.48	-0.29 pts
140	Ethiopia	6.48	-0.15 pts
141	Chile	6.46	+0.26 pts
142	Brazil	6.45	+0.12 pts
143	Antigua and Barbuda	6.45	+0.14 pts
144	Tonga	6.43	+0.03 pts
145	Eritrea	6.41	-0.07 pts
146	Botswana	6.41	-0.28 pts
147	Bhutan	6.35	-0.13 pts
148	Malawi	6.3	-0.25 pts
149	Iceland	6.3	-0.1 pts
149	Vietnam	6.3	+0.04 pts
151	New Caledonia	6.28	+0.21 pts
152	Ireland	6.2	-0.2 pts
153	American Samoa	6.19	+0.18 pts
154	Cambodia	6.19	+0.06 pts
155	Tanzania	6.18	-0.2 pts
156	Peru	6.16	-0.01 pts
157	Aruba	6.15	-0.56 pts
158	Dominican Republic	6.13	+0.27 pts
158	Rwanda	6.13	-0.07 pts
160	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.12	-0.1 pts
161	Mauritania	6.12	-0.17 pts
162	Tunisia	6.1	+0.01 pts
163	Mexico	6.08	+0.01 pts
164	Turkmenistan	5.99	-0.05 pts
165	Senegal	5.98	-0.14 pts
166	Uzbekistan	5.97	+0.04 pts
167	Philippines	5.9	+0.14 pts
168	Yemen	5.86	-0.25 pts
169	British Virgin Islands	5.72	+0.4 pts
170	South Korea	5.7	-0.1 pts
171	Morocco	5.63	+0.01 pts
172	Azerbaijan	5.6	-0.2 pts
172	Mongolia	5.6	0 pts
174	Paraguay	5.58	+0.07 pts
175	Andorra	5.56	+0.08 pts
176	Solomon Islands	5.55	+0.08 pts
177	Vanuatu	5.49	-0.07 pts
178	Egypt	5.48	-0.06 pts
179	Lebanon	5.46	+0.26 pts
180	Uganda	5.42	-0.19 pts
181	Colombia	5.38	+0.03 pts
182	Bangladesh	5.37	-0.07 pts
183	Türkiye	5.3	+0.1 pts
184	Syria	5.28	-1.26 pts
185	Kyrgyzstan	5.2	0 pts
186	Libya	5.17	+0.16 pts
187	Costa Rica	5.12	+0.07 pts
188	Guatemala	5.12	-0.02 pts
189	Israel	5.1	+0.1 pts
190	Belize	5.04	-0.03 pts
191	Cape Verde	5	-0.16 pts
192	Singapore	5	0 pts
193	Malaysia	4.98	+0.03 pts
194	Nicaragua	4.95	+0.12 pts
195	Tajikistan	4.84	-0.05 pts
196	Cayman Islands	4.81	+0.04 pts
197	Brunei	4.78	+0.14 pts
198	Ecuador	4.75	+0.11 pts
199	Panama	4.72	-0 pts
200	Algeria	4.68	+0.01 pts
201	Iran	4.66	+0.01 pts
202	Honduras	4.49	+0.03 pts
203	Iraq	4.36	-0 pts
204	Northern Mariana Islands	4.14	+0.01 pts
205	Macao	3.4	+0.3 pts
206	French Polynesia	3.37	+0.08 pts
207	Palestine	3.13	-0.08 pts
208	Jordan	3.03	-0.02 pts
209	Maldives	2.58	-0.06 pts
210	Saudi Arabia	2.3	+0.07 pts
211	Bahrain	2.1	+0.07 pts
212	Oman	2	+0.01 pts
213	Kuwait	1.64	-0.26 pts
214	United Arab Emirates	0.96	0 pts
215	Qatar	0.84	-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?

The Central African Republic, with 30.25 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2019, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest death rate?

Qatar, with 0.84 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2019.

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.