Countries by death rate

Name: Countries by death rate, 2023
Creator: World Bank
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Monaco had the highest death rate of 215 countries in 2023, at 20.97 per 1,000 inhabitants. Qatar had the lowest, at 0.93 per 1,000 inhabitants. The median was 7.27 per 1,000 inhabitants and the figure for the World was 7.59 per 1,000 inhabitants. Source: the World Bank.

Highest20.97Monaco

Lowest0.93Qatar

Median7.27215 countries

World7.59History

Top 40 countries, 2023

CSV Chart (SVG)

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

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2023 per 1,000 inhabitants	Change on 2022
1	Monaco	20.97	-2.52 pts
2	Bulgaria	15.7	-2.7 pts
3	Latvia	14.9	-1.5 pts
4	Serbia	14.7	-1.6 pts
5	Moldova	13.61	+0.54 pts
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.46	-0.59 pts
7	Hungary	13.4	-0.8 pts
8	Belarus	13.34	+0.09 pts
9	Croatia	13.3	-1.5 pts
10	Ukraine	13.13	-1.06 pts
11	Japan	13	+0.1 pts
12	Lithuania	12.9	-2.2 pts
13	Romania	12.8	-1.5 pts
14	Dominica	12.76	-0.14 pts
15	Germany	12.3	-0.5 pts
16	Greece	12.2	-1.2 pts
17	Russia	12.1	-0.8 pts
18	Georgia	11.84	-0.37 pts
19	Nigeria	11.74	-0.21 pts
20	Estonia	11.7	-1.1 pts
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.5	+0.05 pts
22	Palau	11.5	-0.01 pts
23	Italy	11.4	-0.7 pts
24	Portugal	11.2	-0.7 pts
25	Poland	11.1	-1.1 pts
26	Chad	11.03	-0.45 pts
27	Finland	11	-0.4 pts
27	North Macedonia	11	-1.3 pts
29	Puerto Rico	10.7	-0.3 pts
30	Lesotho	10.65	-0.27 pts
31	Barbados	10.61	-0.48 pts
32	Isle of Man	10.48	+0.21 pts
33	Czechia	10.4	-0.9 pts
34	Slovenia	10.2	-0.4 pts
35	Cuba	10.15	-0.14 pts
36	Montenegro	10.1	-1.2 pts
37	Slovakia	10	-1 pts
38	Saint Kitts and Nevis	9.96	-1.7 pts
39	Somalia	9.84	-2.98 pts
40	Austria	9.8	-0.5 pts
40	Curaçao	9.8	-0.5 pts
40	Denmark	9.8	-0.3 pts
43	Uruguay	9.78	-1.05 pts
44	North Korea	9.68	+0.2 pts
45	South Sudan	9.61	-0.3 pts
46	United Kingdom	9.52	+0.01 pts
47	Mauritius	9.5	-0.8 pts
47	Netherlands	9.5	-0.1 pts
49	Central African Republic	9.42	-45.71 pts
50	Belgium	9.4	-0.6 pts
50	France	9.4	-0.5 pts
50	Greenland	9.4	+0.1 pts
53	Saint Martin	9.28	+0.26 pts
54	Fiji	9.26	-0.04 pts
55	South Africa	9.24	-0.16 pts
56	United States	9.2	-0.6 pts
57	Myanmar	9.15	-0.03 pts
58	Tuvalu	9.14	+0.07 pts
59	Guinea	9.13	-0.18 pts
60	Spain	9	-0.7 pts
60	Sweden	9	0 pts
60	U.S. Virgin Islands	9	+0.2 pts
63	Thailand	8.89	-0.34 pts
64	Grenada	8.86	+0.1 pts
64	Niger	8.86	-0.31 pts
66	Bermuda	8.86	+0.09 pts
67	Benin	8.8	-0.15 pts
68	Togo	8.73	-0.22 pts
69	Bahamas	8.71	+0.15 pts
70	Mali	8.63	-0.23 pts
71	Saint Lucia	8.61	+0.16 pts
72	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.53	-0.4 pts
73	Trinidad and Tobago	8.37	+0.14 pts
74	Albania	8.33	-0.38 pts
75	San Marino	8.3	+0.5 pts
76	Sierra Leone	8.29	-0.24 pts
77	Armenia	8.2	-0.8 pts
77	Canada	8.2	-0.5 pts
77	Sri Lanka	8.2	+0.1 pts
80	Sint Maarten	8.13	+0.14 pts
81	Switzerland	8.1	-0.4 pts
82	Jamaica	8.08	+0.17 pts
83	Liberia	8.07	-0.09 pts
84	Burkina Faso	7.96	-0.17 pts
85	Norway	7.9	-0.5 pts
86	Equatorial Guinea	7.88	-0.14 pts
87	China	7.87	+0.5 pts
88	Haiti	7.82	-0.46 pts
89	Eswatini	7.7	-0.4 pts
90	Argentina	7.67	-1.13 pts
91	Côte d’Ivoire	7.66	-0.16 pts
92	Micronesia	7.64	+0.03 pts
93	Faroe Islands	7.64	-1.42 pts
94	Zimbabwe	7.61	-0.17 pts
95	Aruba	7.58	-0.61 pts
96	Venezuela	7.56	+0.21 pts
97	Indonesia	7.53	+0.04 pts
98	Madagascar	7.53	-0.2 pts
99	El Salvador	7.52	+0.06 pts
99	Nauru	7.52	+0.05 pts
101	Djibouti	7.46	-0.09 pts
102	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.4	+0.03 pts
103	Guyana	7.32	+0.01 pts
104	Hong Kong	7.3	-1.4 pts
104	Malta	7.3	-0.7 pts
104	Seychelles	7.3	-0.5 pts
107	New Zealand	7.29	-0.29 pts
108	Timor-Leste	7.27	-0.09 pts
109	Kenya	7.21	-0 pts
110	Palestine	7.2	+4.21 pts
111	Comoros	7.2	-0.1 pts
112	Bolivia	7.17	-0.51 pts
113	Cameroon	7.15	-0.52 pts
114	Brazil	7.08	-0.46 pts
115	Cyprus	7.06	-0.63 pts
116	Guinea-Bissau	7.05	-0.17 pts
117	Kiribati	7.05	-0.03 pts
118	Ghana	7.04	-0.05 pts
119	American Samoa	7.02	+0.21 pts
120	Mozambique	7	-0.25 pts
121	Marshall Islands	6.97	+0.11 pts
122	Nepal	6.93	+0.04 pts
123	Angola	6.93	-0.17 pts
124	South Korea	6.9	-0.4 pts
125	Antigua and Barbuda	6.89	+0.12 pts
126	Australia	6.88	-0.42 pts
127	Guam	6.87	+0.13 pts
128	Liechtenstein	6.8	-0.3 pts
129	Burundi	6.72	-0.28 pts
130	Kazakhstan	6.71	-0.28 pts
131	Iceland	6.7	-0.3 pts
132	Libya	6.65	+1.85 pts
133	Suriname	6.65	-0.04 pts
134	India	6.61	+0.04 pts
135	Ireland	6.6	-0.1 pts
135	Luxembourg	6.6	-0.2 pts
137	Vietnam	6.58	+0.09 pts
138	Papua New Guinea	6.52	-0.33 pts
139	Gibraltar	6.51	+0.1 pts
140	Chile	6.5	-1.08 pts
141	Pakistan	6.47	-0.05 pts
142	Tonga	6.44	-0.03 pts
143	Sudan	6.4	-0.12 pts
144	Cambodia	6.39	+0.07 pts
145	Gambia	6.29	-0.34 pts
146	Republic of the Congo	6.29	-0.28 pts
147	New Caledonia	6.27	-0.53 pts
148	Gabon	6.27	-0.25 pts
149	Dominican Republic	6.25	+0.35 pts
150	Philippines	6.24	-0.03 pts
151	Laos	6.22	-0.04 pts
152	Uzbekistan	6.21	+0.16 pts
153	Singapore	6.2	-0.1 pts
153	Türkiye	6.2	+0.3 pts
155	Namibia	6.17	-1.3 pts
156	Mexico	6.16	-0.36 pts
157	Samoa	6.16	-0.02 pts
158	Bhutan	6.11	-0.03 pts
159	Andorra	6.08	+0.13 pts
160	Tunisia	6.07	-0.09 pts
161	Eritrea	6.05	-0.27 pts
162	British Virgin Islands	5.97	+0.06 pts
163	Lebanon	5.96	+0.19 pts
164	Ethiopia	5.96	-0.13 pts
165	Rwanda	5.94	-0.06 pts
166	Azerbaijan	5.9	-0.1 pts
167	Afghanistan	5.8	-0.2 pts
168	Tanzania	5.79	-0.05 pts
169	Turkmenistan	5.78	-0.01 pts
170	Botswana	5.72	-0.1 pts
171	Paraguay	5.7	-0.66 pts
172	Morocco	5.64	+0.07 pts
173	Senegal	5.58	-0.34 pts
174	São Tomé and Príncipe	5.57	-0.16 pts
175	Mauritania	5.52	-0.11 pts
176	Mongolia	5.5	-0.1 pts
177	Peru	5.49	-0.9 pts
178	Egypt	5.46	-0.21 pts
179	Costa Rica	5.46	-0.65 pts
180	Colombia	5.4	-0.48 pts
181	Malawi	5.36	-0.44 pts
182	Brunei	5.23	-1.33 pts
183	Zambia	5.21	-0.38 pts
184	Israel	5.2	-0.2 pts
185	Malaysia	5.16	-0.39 pts
186	Solomon Islands	5.14	-0.05 pts
187	Ecuador	5.13	-0.24 pts
188	Vanuatu	5.08	-0.08 pts
189	Cape Verde	5.06	+0.06 pts
190	Syria	5.04	+0.27 pts
191	Bangladesh	5.01	-0.03 pts
192	Belize	4.93	-0.48 pts
193	Uganda	4.84	-0.19 pts
194	Guatemala	4.83	-0.45 pts
195	Cayman Islands	4.8	-0.02 pts
196	Yemen	4.79	-0.44 pts
197	Panama	4.77	+0.02 pts
198	Northern Mariana Islands	4.7	+0.2 pts
199	Iran	4.67	-0.23 pts
200	Algeria	4.64	+0.04 pts
201	Nicaragua	4.59	-0.1 pts
202	Tajikistan	4.58	-0.04 pts
203	Honduras	4.48	+0.04 pts
204	Kyrgyzstan	4.4	-0.1 pts
204	Macao	4.4	0 pts
206	Iraq	4.13	-0.03 pts
207	French Polynesia	3.65	+0.12 pts
208	Jordan	3.05	-0.11 pts
209	Saudi Arabia	2.34	-0.23 pts
210	Maldives	2.34	+0.01 pts
211	Bahrain	2.09	-0 pts
212	Oman	1.9	-0.23 pts
213	Kuwait	1.53	-0.22 pts
214	United Arab Emirates	0.93	-0.25 pts
215	Qatar	0.93	-0 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 20.97 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2023, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest death rate?

Qatar, with 0.93 per 1,000 inhabitants in 2023.

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.