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Ghana - Death Rate 1997

Name: Ghana Death Rate 1997
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Crude death rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

10.4 −0.2 from 1996 Global rank: 151st

Ghana's death rate was 10.4 in 1997, decreased +0.2 from 10.6 in 1996. This was the 151st highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1997▾

Death Rate by Country - 1997
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Qatar	1.9	-2.6%
2nd	Kuwait	2.0	1.5%
3rd	United Arab Emirates	2.6	-4.0%
4th	French Polynesia	2.8	-3.8%
5th	Bahrain	2.8	-1.8%
6th	Macao SAR, China	3.1	-8.8%
7th	Northern Mariana Islands	3.2	-6.2%
8th	St. Martin (French part)	3.3	4.9%
9th	Saudi Arabia	3.5	-2.6%
10th	Oman	3.5	-3.9%
11th	Brunei Darussalam	3.5	-1.1%
12th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	3.8	-0.6%
13th	Jordan	3.9	-1.6%
14th	Costa Rica	3.9	0.2%
15th	American Samoa	4.4	-0.3%
16th	Libya	4.4	2.1%
17th	Malaysia	4.5	-0.6%
18th	Guam	4.5	1.5%
19th	Singapore	4.5	-4.3%
20th	Turks and Caicos Islands	4.6	-2.0%
21st	Syrian Arab Republic	4.6	0.0%
22nd	British Virgin Islands	4.7	-0.8%
23rd	Lebanon	4.7	-1.2%
24th	Hong Kong SAR, China	4.9	-2.0%
25th	West Bank and Gaza	4.9	-5.0%
26th	Panama	5.0	-1.4%
27th	Ecuador	5.0	0.1%
28th	Tunisia	5.1	-1.7%
29th	Chile	5.2	0.1%
30th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	5.2	-1.2%
31st	Maldives	5.3	-7.0%
32nd	Korea	5.3	1.9%
33rd	Virgin Islands (US)	5.3	1.9%
34th	Belize	5.3	1.1%
35th	New Caledonia	5.4	-1.8%
36th	Colombia	5.5	-1.9%
37th	Samoa	5.5	-0.9%
38th	Algeria	5.5	-3.1%
39th	Vanuatu	5.5	-1.9%
40th	Paraguay	5.6	-1.5%
41st	Dominican Republic	5.6	-0.8%
42nd	Mexico	5.6	-1.1%
43rd	Cayman Islands	5.6	-0.7%
44th	Honduras	5.6	-2.7%
45th	Kosovo	5.6	-3.0%
46th	Philippines	5.6	-1.8%
47th	Andorra	5.7	4.4%
48th	Viet Nam	5.7	-2.3%
49th	Aruba	5.8	1.9%
50th	Albania	5.8	6.3%
51st	St. Lucia	6.0	1.7%
52nd	Azerbaijan	6.0	-3.2%
53rd	Peru	6.0	-2.0%
54th	Türkiye	6.0	-1.2%
55th	Solomon Islands	6.1	-0.1%
56th	Israel	6.2	1.6%
57th	Thailand	6.2	-0.1%
58th	Nicaragua	6.2	-1.1%
59th	Fiji	6.4	0.1%
60th	Brazil	6.4	-1.0%
61st	China	6.5	-0.8%
62nd	Bahamas, The	6.6	0.6%
63rd	El Salvador	6.6	-2.2%
64th	Tonga	6.7	-0.5%
65th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	6.7	-2.7%
66th	Morocco	6.7	-1.3%
67th	Trinidad and Tobago	6.8	0.4%
68th	Iceland	6.8	-2.9%
69th	Marshall Islands	6.8	-1.3%
70th	Antigua and Barbuda	6.8	-2.9%
71st	Cyprus	6.9	-1.6%
72nd	Bermuda	6.9	-1.1%
73rd	Australia	7.0	0.0%
74th	Mauritius	7.0	2.9%
75th	Guatemala	7.0	-4.5%
76th	Sri Lanka	7.0	0.3%
77th	Grenada	7.2	-0.4%
78th	Micronesia, Federated States of	7.2	-1.7%
79th	Canada	7.2	0.0%
80th	Uzbekistan	7.2	-2.0%
81st	Jamaica	7.2	-0.7%
82nd	Iraq	7.2	1.4%
83rd	New Zealand	7.3	-4.1%
84th	Cuba	7.3	-1.0%
85th	Cabo Verde	7.3	-3.9%
86th	Japan	7.3	1.4%
87th	Kyrgyz Republic	7.3	-1.4%
88th	Liechtenstein	7.4	0.0%
89th	Argentina	7.4	-1.4%
90th	Indonesia	7.4	-0.8%
91st	Turkmenistan	7.5	-1.3%
92nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	7.5	1.9%
93rd	Malta	7.5	2.7%
94th	Gibraltar	7.5	-0.7%
95th	Curaçao	7.5	1.5%
96th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.6	-1.5%
97th	Suriname	7.7	1.1%
98th	Puerto Rico (US)	7.7	-3.8%
99th	Nauru	7.7	0.6%
100th	Kiribati	7.7	-2.4%
101st	Seychelles	7.8	5.4%
102nd	Papua New Guinea	7.9	-0.8%
103rd	Mongolia	8.1	-3.5%
104th	Armenia	8.1	0.3%
105th	San Marino	8.2	-1.4%
106th	North Macedonia	8.3	-4.7%
107th	Guyana	8.3	-1.2%
108th	Montenegro	8.5	3.7%
109th	Tajikistan	8.5	-6.9%
110th	Faroe Islands	8.6	-5.5%
111th	Ireland	8.6	-1.1%
112th	Spain	8.7	-1.1%
113th	Netherlands	8.7	-2.2%
114th	United States	8.7	-1.1%
115th	Bhutan	8.8	-4.0%
116th	Greenland	8.8	11.4%
117th	Yemen, Republic of	8.8	-3.9%
118th	Switzerland	8.9	0.0%
119th	Barbados	9.1	1.7%
120th	France	9.1	0.0%
121st	India	9.2	-2.1%
122nd	South Africa	9.3	2.0%
123rd	Nepal	9.3	-4.9%
124th	Greece	9.4	-1.1%
125th	Luxembourg	9.4	0.0%
126th	Bangladesh	9.4	-3.6%
127th	Channel Islands	9.5	-3.1%
128th	Slovenia	9.5	1.1%
129th	Dominica	9.6	-0.3%
130th	Finland	9.6	0.0%
131st	Pakistan	9.7	-1.8%
132nd	Uruguay	9.7	0.3%
133rd	Slovak Republic	9.7	2.1%
134th	Palau	9.8	-0.6%
135th	Italy	9.8	1.0%
136th	Poland	9.8	-2.0%
137th	Mauritania	9.8	-3.7%
138th	Cambodia	9.9	-5.5%
139th	Austria	10.0	-2.0%
140th	São Tomé and Principe	10.1	-1.0%
141st	Norway	10.1	1.0%
142nd	European Union	10.1	-1.1%
143rd	Gabon	10.2	-1.5%
144th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	10.2	-1.6%
145th	Belgium	10.2	-1.0%
146th	St. Kitts and Nevis	10.2	-2.1%
147th	Tuvalu	10.2	-0.7%
148th	Myanmar	10.2	-1.4%
149th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	10.3	1.0%
150th	Kenya	10.4	0.1%
151st	Ghana	10.4	-1.6%
152nd	Portugal	10.4	-1.9%
153rd	Germany	10.5	-2.8%
154th	Sudan	10.5	-2.5%
155th	Sweden	10.6	0.0%
156th	Georgia	10.6	11.1%
157th	Kazakhstan	10.7	1.7%
158th	Namibia	10.7	3.4%
159th	United Kingdom	10.8	-0.9%
160th	Lao PDR	10.9	-3.3%
161st	Czechia	10.9	0.0%
162nd	Djibouti	10.9	-0.7%
163rd	Senegal	11.1	0.0%
164th	Comoros	11.1	-1.3%
165th	Haiti	11.3	-3.1%
166th	Denmark	11.3	-2.6%
167th	Monaco	11.3	-0.9%
168th	Croatia	11.5	3.6%
169th	Lithuania	11.5	-3.4%
170th	Eritrea	11.5	-4.2%
171st	Botswana	11.5	3.6%
172nd	Madagascar	11.7	-3.3%
173rd	Eswatini	11.8	7.1%
174th	Moldova	12.0	-0.2%
175th	Romania	12.4	-2.4%
176th	Togo	12.4	-0.4%
177th	Benin	12.5	-2.3%
178th	Gambia, The	12.8	-3.2%
179th	Lesotho	12.8	6.3%
180th	Serbia	12.9	0.1%
181st	Estonia	13.3	-0.7%
182nd	Belarus	13.5	3.1%
183rd	Hungary	13.5	-2.9%
184th	Côte d'Ivoire	13.5	0.0%
185th	Cameroon	13.6	-0.2%
186th	Isle of Man	13.6	-1.6%
187th	Afghanistan	13.7	-2.0%
188th	Latvia	13.8	-1.4%
189th	Russian Federation	13.8	-2.8%
190th	Tanzania	14.1	-1.2%
191st	Zimbabwe	14.3	2.4%
192nd	Bulgaria	14.7	5.0%
193rd	Equatorial Guinea	14.7	-1.9%
194th	Ukraine	14.9	-2.3%
195th	Timor-Leste	15.4	-3.1%
196th	Congo, Republic of	15.5	33.2%
197th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	15.7	-4.7%
198th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	16.1	1.0%
199th	Guinea	16.2	-2.2%
200th	Liberia	16.2	-17.5%
201st	Uganda	16.3	-1.6%
202nd	Burkina Faso	16.4	0.0%
203rd	Central African Republic	16.6	0.6%
204th	Mozambique	17.1	-2.7%
205th	Mali	17.1	-2.6%
206th	Zambia	17.3	-0.9%
207th	Burundi	17.5	-6.0%
208th	Rwanda	18.0	10.5%
209th	Guinea-Bissau	18.1	1.3%
210th	Angola	18.2	-1.4%
211th	Nigeria	18.4	-0.8%
212th	Chad	18.4	-1.2%
213th	Niger	19.5	-3.2%
214th	Malawi	19.7	-1.9%
215th	Sierra Leone	21.5	-0.9%
216th	South Sudan	29.6	-4.1%

FAQ

What was Ghana's death rate in 1997?▾

Ghana's death rate in 1997 was 10.4. This ranked 151st globally.

How did Ghana's death rate change in 1997?▾

Ghana's death rate decreased by 1.6% in 1997 compared to 1996.

Which country had the highest death rate in 1997?▾

South Sudan had the highest death rate in 1997 at 29.6.

What is the death rate of Ghana in 1997?▾

The death rate of Ghana in 1997 was 10.4. This ranked 151st globally.

How does 1997 compare to 1996 for Ghana's death rate?▾

Ghana's death rate went from 10.6 in 1996 to 10.4 in 1997, a 1.6% decrease.

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