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United States - Death Rate 1968

Name: United States Death Rate 1968
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Crude death rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

9.8 +0.4 from 1967 Global rank: 84th

United States's death rate was 9.8 in 1968, increased +0.4 from 9.4 in 1967. This was the 84th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1968▾

Death Rate by Country - 1968
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	4.9	-3.8%
2nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	5.1	-5.6%
3rd	Guam	5.2	-1.3%
4th	Singapore	5.5	3.8%
5th	St. Martin (French part)	5.5	-1.8%
6th	Macao SAR, China	5.7	-2.9%
7th	American Samoa	5.9	-1.5%
8th	Kuwait	6.0	-5.5%
9th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	6.1	-7.0%
10th	Aruba	6.3	-1.3%
11th	Grenada	6.4	-4.3%
12th	Puerto Rico (US)	6.5	3.2%
13th	Antigua and Barbuda	6.7	-4.3%
14th	Israel	6.7	4.7%
15th	Japan	6.8	0.0%
16th	Costa Rica	6.8	-3.2%
17th	Curaçao	6.9	-1.6%
18th	Iceland	6.9	-1.4%
19th	Bahamas, The	6.9	-2.8%
20th	Northern Mariana Islands	6.9	3.9%
21st	Faroe Islands	7.1	-0.4%
22nd	Barbados	7.1	-1.5%
23rd	Liechtenstein	7.1	-9.0%
24th	Canada	7.4	0.0%
25th	Brunei Darussalam	7.4	-4.3%
26th	Montenegro	7.4	-3.1%
27th	Cuba	7.5	-2.6%
28th	Virgin Islands (US)	7.5	-3.8%
29th	San Marino	7.6	-0.6%
30th	Poland	7.6	-1.3%
31st	Belarus	7.6	3.1%
32nd	Gibraltar	7.6	-1.2%
33rd	Malaysia	7.7	-2.8%
34th	Greenland	7.7	2.7%
35th	British Virgin Islands	7.7	-3.1%
36th	Bermuda	7.8	0.5%
37th	Qatar	7.8	-5.1%
38th	Trinidad and Tobago	7.8	0.2%
39th	United Arab Emirates	7.9	-16.0%
40th	Fiji	7.9	-2.8%
41st	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8.0	-0.4%
42nd	Panama	8.0	-2.6%
43rd	Russian Federation	8.1	2.3%
44th	Serbia	8.1	2.3%
45th	Sri Lanka	8.1	-2.4%
46th	French Polynesia	8.2	-2.4%
47th	Tonga	8.2	-3.2%
48th	Netherlands	8.2	3.8%
49th	China	8.2	-2.6%
50th	Philippines	8.3	-1.7%
51st	Lebanon	8.3	-2.1%
52nd	Spain	8.4	0.0%
53rd	Greece	8.4	1.2%
54th	Lithuania	8.4	3.7%
55th	North Macedonia	8.4	-4.2%
56th	Ukraine	8.4	2.7%
57th	Slovak Republic	8.5	6.3%
58th	Korea	8.5	-0.1%
59th	Jamaica	8.6	-0.9%
60th	Bulgaria	8.6	-4.4%
61st	Bahrain	8.6	-7.3%
62nd	Chile	8.8	-3.0%
63rd	St. Lucia	8.8	-2.9%
64th	New Zealand	8.9	5.3%
65th	Nauru	9.0	-2.8%
66th	Colombia	9.1	-3.4%
67th	Australia	9.1	4.6%
68th	Argentina	9.2	3.4%
69th	Mauritius	9.2	7.0%
70th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	9.2	-4.0%
71st	Armenia	9.2	-3.3%
72nd	Samoa	9.4	-3.6%
73rd	Malta	9.4	-2.1%
74th	Cyprus	9.5	0.9%
75th	Switzerland	9.5	3.3%
76th	Romania	9.5	3.3%
77th	Dominica	9.5	-2.7%
78th	Paraguay	9.6	-1.2%
79th	Uruguay	9.7	0.2%
80th	Denmark	9.7	-2.0%
81st	Finland	9.7	2.1%
82nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	9.7	-3.4%
83rd	Albania	9.8	-4.1%
84th	United States	9.8	4.3%
85th	Guyana	9.8	-1.5%
86th	Belize	9.8	-3.5%
87th	Norway	9.9	3.1%
88th	Croatia	10.0	5.3%
89th	Italy	10.0	4.2%
90th	Micronesia, Federated States of	10.2	-3.2%
91st	Slovenia	10.2	5.2%
92nd	Jordan	10.3	-4.8%
93rd	European Union	10.4	2.6%
94th	Sweden	10.4	3.0%
95th	New Caledonia	10.4	-4.4%
96th	Georgia	10.5	-1.3%
97th	Mexico	10.5	-2.2%
98th	Kazakhstan	10.5	-1.8%
99th	Moldova	10.6	0.6%
100th	Estonia	10.7	2.9%
101st	Portugal	10.7	-0.9%
102nd	Seychelles	10.7	-4.0%
103rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	10.8	-2.9%
104th	Latvia	10.8	1.9%
105th	France	10.9	-0.9%
106th	Cayman Islands	11.0	-0.8%
107th	Brazil	11.0	-3.0%
108th	Azerbaijan	11.0	-4.4%
109th	Suriname	11.0	-2.9%
110th	Hungary	11.2	4.7%
111th	Ireland	11.4	5.6%
112th	Syrian Arab Republic	11.4	-5.6%
113th	Dominican Republic	11.5	-4.3%
114th	Zimbabwe	11.6	-2.2%
115th	Thailand	11.7	-3.9%
116th	Czechia	11.7	5.4%
117th	Iraq	11.8	-2.7%
118th	United Kingdom	11.9	6.3%
119th	Ecuador	12.1	-2.7%
120th	Uzbekistan	12.1	-3.6%
121st	Channel Islands	12.2	2.5%
122nd	Luxembourg	12.2	-0.8%
123rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	12.2	-0.6%
124th	Palau	12.3	-0.8%
125th	Vanuatu	12.5	-3.5%
126th	South Africa	12.5	-1.1%
127th	Germany	12.6	5.9%
128th	Kyrgyz Republic	12.6	-2.9%
129th	Belgium	12.7	5.8%
130th	Austria	12.9	0.0%
131st	Marshall Islands	12.9	-5.3%
132nd	Tuvalu	13.4	-3.0%
133rd	Papua New Guinea	13.4	-3.1%
134th	Botswana	13.4	-2.3%
135th	Solomon Islands	13.5	-4.0%
136th	Turkmenistan	13.6	-3.5%
137th	Tajikistan	13.7	-2.6%
138th	Cabo Verde	13.8	-2.9%
139th	Nicaragua	14.0	-2.6%
140th	São Tomé and Principe	14.2	-3.7%
141st	Honduras	14.2	-3.6%
142nd	Türkiye	14.3	-2.5%
143rd	Peru	14.4	-2.0%
144th	Kenya	14.4	-3.0%
145th	Congo, Republic of	14.4	-3.1%
146th	Indonesia	14.5	-2.8%
147th	Libya	14.5	-7.6%
148th	Namibia	14.6	-2.6%
149th	Viet Nam	14.7	18.5%
150th	Sudan	14.9	-1.2%
151st	Kiribati	15.0	-2.8%
152nd	Kosovo	15.1	-1.6%
153rd	Pakistan	15.1	-3.4%
154th	Zambia	15.1	-0.9%
155th	El Salvador	15.9	-0.6%
156th	Eswatini	16.0	-2.1%
157th	Lesotho	16.0	-2.1%
158th	Tunisia	16.1	-6.0%
159th	Myanmar	16.3	-2.4%
160th	Saudi Arabia	16.4	-4.2%
161st	Uganda	16.5	-0.8%
162nd	Guatemala	16.6	-0.7%
163rd	Mauritania	16.7	-2.2%
164th	Monaco	17.0	1.3%
165th	Isle of Man	17.2	-0.4%
166th	India	17.5	-6.8%
167th	Morocco	17.5	-3.0%
168th	Rwanda	17.8	0.8%
169th	Gabon	17.9	-2.0%
170th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	18.0	-1.9%
171st	Bangladesh	18.0	-1.4%
172nd	Djibouti	18.0	-1.7%
173rd	Mongolia	18.0	-4.0%
174th	Cambodia	18.2	-1.7%
175th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	18.2	-1.4%
176th	Madagascar	18.3	-1.8%
177th	Haiti	18.7	-1.6%
178th	Ghana	19.0	-0.3%
179th	Tanzania	19.3	-1.7%
180th	Cameroon	19.4	-2.5%
181st	Togo	19.5	-1.8%
182nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	19.6	-0.8%
183rd	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	19.9	-1.9%
184th	Lao PDR	20.8	-1.0%
185th	Equatorial Guinea	21.1	-0.8%
186th	Central African Republic	21.2	-2.2%
187th	Burundi	21.3	-0.1%
188th	Maldives	21.6	-4.3%
189th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	21.6	-1.2%
190th	Comoros	21.7	-2.2%
191st	Nepal	21.8	-1.6%
192nd	Oman	22.0	-4.7%
193rd	Algeria	22.2	-1.1%
194th	Côte d'Ivoire	22.5	-2.7%
195th	Mozambique	22.7	-0.7%
196th	Eritrea	23.0	-1.4%
197th	Bhutan	23.6	-2.3%
198th	Chad	24.0	-1.0%
199th	Senegal	24.2	-0.7%
200th	Benin	24.5	-1.9%
201st	Liberia	24.7	-1.3%
202nd	Gambia, The	25.2	-1.9%
203rd	Nigeria	25.3	-4.0%
204th	Burkina Faso	25.5	-0.8%
205th	Angola	26.0	-1.6%
206th	Guinea	26.1	-1.1%
207th	Guinea-Bissau	26.2	-2.3%
208th	Timor-Leste	26.3	-2.2%
209th	Sierra Leone	27.3	-1.5%
210th	Niger	27.8	0.4%
211th	Afghanistan	27.8	-1.6%
212th	Yemen, Republic of	29.2	-3.2%
213th	Malawi	29.4	-0.5%
214th	Mali	32.3	-1.1%
215th	South Sudan	40.7	-1.1%

FAQ

What was United States's death rate in 1968?▾

United States's death rate in 1968 was 9.8. This ranked 84th globally.

How did United States's death rate change in 1968?▾

United States's death rate increased by 4.3% in 1968 compared to 1967.

Which country had the highest death rate in 1968?▾

South Sudan had the highest death rate in 1968 at 40.7.

What is the death rate of United States in 1968?▾

The death rate of United States in 1968 was 9.8. This ranked 84th globally.

How does 1968 compare to 1967 for United States's death rate?▾

United States's death rate went from 9.4 in 1967 to 9.8 in 1968, a 4.3% increase.

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