ATLAS · DEATH RATE

Death Rate by Country

The whole world, recoloured by death rate. Death Rate worldwide (world figure): 7.6 / 1,000 (2024). On the map below, paler countries sit at the low end and the deepest green at the high end. Tap any nation to open its full profile. Deaths per 1,000 people each year, World Bank.

HIGHEST

20.1 / 1,000

Monaco

LOWEST

1.0 / 1,000

United Arab Emirates

WORLD

7.6 / 1,000

217 countries with a figure

Source: World Bank Open Data (CC-BY 4.0), 2024 · geometry: Natural Earth (public domain)

How the map is coloured

5.1 / 1,00010.6 / 1,000
No figure — the source has no value for this country (shown in words, never as zero).

The top 25

217 countries and territories have a death rate figure. Here are the highest:

#CountryDeath Rate
1Monaco20.1 / 1,000
2Bulgaria15.6 / 1,000
3Serbia14.9 / 1,000
4Latvia14.3 / 1,000
5Moldova13.8 / 1,000
6Ukraine13.6 / 1,000
7Bosnia and Herzegovina13.5 / 1,000
8Hungary13.4 / 1,000
9Japan13.3 / 1,000
10Croatia13.2 / 1,000
11Belarus13.1 / 1,000
12Lithuania13.0 / 1,000
13Romania12.8 / 1,000
14Dominica12.6 / 1,000
15Russian Federation12.4 / 1,000
16Germany12.1 / 1,000
17Greece12.1 / 1,000
18Georgia11.8 / 1,000
19Palau11.7 / 1,000
20Nigeria11.6 / 1,000
21St. Vincent and the Grenadines11.5 / 1,000
22Estonia11.5 / 1,000
23Poland11.2 / 1,000
24North Macedonia11.1 / 1,000
25Portugal11.1 / 1,000

Monaco ranks 1st of 217.Every country’s full standing is on its profile.

THE WORLD, BY THE NUMBERS

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