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United States - Death Rate 1971

Name: United States Death Rate 1971
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Crude death rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

9.3 −0.2 from 1970 Global rank: 79th

United States's death rate was 9.3 in 1971, decreased +0.2 from 9.5 in 1970. This was the 79th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1971▾

Death Rate by Country - 1971
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Andorra	4.4	-2.5%
2nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	5.0	-2.0%
3rd	Guam	5.0	-1.1%
4th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	5.1	-4.1%
5th	Kuwait	5.1	-4.9%
6th	St. Martin (French part)	5.1	-2.3%
7th	Singapore	5.4	3.8%
8th	Macao SAR, China	5.5	-2.4%
9th	American Samoa	5.5	-3.0%
10th	Northern Mariana Islands	5.8	-5.6%
11th	Costa Rica	6.0	-4.6%
12th	Aruba	6.1	-0.8%
13th	Greenland	6.1	0.0%
14th	Antigua and Barbuda	6.1	-1.3%
15th	Grenada	6.2	-1.0%
16th	Qatar	6.2	-10.1%
17th	Bahamas, The	6.4	-2.3%
18th	Puerto Rico (US)	6.5	-3.0%
19th	Virgin Islands (US)	6.5	-4.4%
20th	Brunei Darussalam	6.5	-6.1%
21st	United Arab Emirates	6.5	-6.1%
22nd	Curaçao	6.6	-1.5%
23rd	Japan	6.6	-4.3%
24th	Bahrain	6.7	-8.3%
25th	Cuba	6.8	-3.0%
26th	Barbados	6.9	-0.3%
27th	Israel	7.0	-1.4%
28th	Malaysia	7.0	-3.0%
29th	Montenegro	7.2	-1.7%
30th	British Virgin Islands	7.2	-1.8%
31st	Korea	7.2	-10.0%
32nd	Panama	7.3	-4.0%
33rd	Canada	7.3	0.0%
34th	Iceland	7.3	2.8%
35th	San Marino	7.3	-1.7%
36th	China	7.3	-3.7%
37th	Tonga	7.4	-3.0%
38th	French Polynesia	7.5	-3.1%
39th	Gibraltar	7.5	-0.8%
40th	Bermuda	7.6	-2.2%
41st	Mauritius	7.7	-2.5%
42nd	Fiji	7.7	-1.2%
43rd	Nauru	7.8	0.3%
44th	Sri Lanka	7.8	0.0%
45th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.9	0.4%
46th	Trinidad and Tobago	7.9	-1.3%
47th	Lebanon	7.9	-1.6%
48th	Belarus	7.9	-0.2%
49th	Faroe Islands	8.0	8.1%
50th	Philippines	8.1	-1.8%
51st	Colombia	8.1	-4.0%
52nd	North Macedonia	8.1	-0.9%
53rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	8.2	-4.2%
54th	Chile	8.2	-2.0%
55th	St. Lucia	8.3	-2.5%
56th	Jamaica	8.4	-1.4%
57th	Greece	8.4	0.0%
58th	Netherlands	8.4	0.0%
59th	Albania	8.5	-4.5%
60th	Samoa	8.5	-3.2%
61st	New Zealand	8.5	-3.6%
62nd	Lithuania	8.5	-4.5%
63rd	Seychelles	8.5	-14.2%
64th	Armenia	8.6	-1.8%
65th	Australia	8.6	-4.4%
66th	Liechtenstein	8.6	11.7%
67th	Poland	8.7	6.1%
68th	Dominica	8.7	-4.0%
69th	Russian Federation	8.7	0.6%
70th	Spain	8.8	6.0%
71st	Belize	8.8	-2.7%
72nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	8.9	-2.3%
73rd	Ukraine	9.0	1.1%
74th	Serbia	9.0	2.6%
75th	Jordan	9.1	-9.9%
76th	New Caledonia	9.1	-3.5%
77th	Paraguay	9.3	-1.3%
78th	Switzerland	9.3	1.1%
79th	United States	9.3	-2.1%
80th	Argentina	9.4	2.2%
81st	Micronesia, Federated States of	9.4	-2.4%
82nd	Slovak Republic	9.4	1.1%
83rd	Romania	9.5	0.0%
84th	Guyana	9.6	-0.4%
85th	Turks and Caicos Islands	9.6	-4.6%
86th	Mexico	9.7	-3.3%
87th	Bulgaria	9.7	6.6%
88th	Italy	9.7	0.0%
89th	Uruguay	9.8	0.0%
90th	Denmark	9.8	0.0%
91st	Cyprus	9.8	2.0%
92nd	Syrian Arab Republic	9.9	-4.8%
93rd	Finland	9.9	3.1%
94th	Azerbaijan	9.9	-3.0%
95th	Norway	10.0	0.0%
96th	Slovenia	10.0	-1.0%
97th	Croatia	10.1	1.0%
98th	Cayman Islands	10.2	-6.8%
99th	Dominican Republic	10.2	-3.9%
100th	Kazakhstan	10.2	-0.7%
101st	Malta	10.2	1.0%
102nd	Sweden	10.2	3.0%
103rd	Brazil	10.2	-2.1%
104th	Thailand	10.3	-3.8%
105th	Suriname	10.3	-1.9%
106th	Georgia	10.3	0.1%
107th	European Union	10.5	0.8%
108th	Iraq	10.5	-4.0%
109th	Moldova	10.7	-0.5%
110th	Ireland	10.7	-6.1%
111th	France	10.8	0.0%
112th	Estonia	10.9	-2.7%
113th	Marshall Islands	11.0	-3.5%
114th	Ecuador	11.1	-3.1%
115th	Latvia	11.1	-1.8%
116th	Zimbabwe	11.1	-1.0%
117th	Uzbekistan	11.2	-2.3%
118th	Palau	11.4	-4.1%
119th	Portugal	11.4	6.5%
120th	United Kingdom	11.5	-2.5%
121st	Libya	11.7	-6.6%
122nd	Kyrgyz Republic	11.9	-2.0%
123rd	Vanuatu	11.9	-2.3%
124th	Hungary	11.9	2.6%
125th	Solomon Islands	12.0	-5.6%
126th	St. Kitts and Nevis	12.0	-1.3%
127th	South Africa	12.0	-1.6%
128th	Channel Islands	12.1	-1.6%
129th	Tuvalu	12.2	-2.8%
130th	Papua New Guinea	12.3	-2.6%
131st	Germany	12.3	-1.6%
132nd	Botswana	12.3	-3.8%
133rd	Belgium	12.4	0.8%
134th	Czechia	12.5	0.0%
135th	Turkmenistan	12.5	-2.3%
136th	São Tomé and Principe	12.7	-4.7%
137th	Honduras	12.8	-3.4%
138th	Luxembourg	12.8	4.9%
139th	Tajikistan	12.8	-1.9%
140th	Viet Nam	13.0	-2.7%
141st	Austria	13.0	-1.5%
142nd	Cabo Verde	13.1	-1.1%
143rd	Türkiye	13.1	-3.0%
144th	Nicaragua	13.1	-2.0%
145th	Indonesia	13.2	-2.9%
146th	Kenya	13.2	-2.6%
147th	Tunisia	13.3	-6.0%
148th	Kiribati	13.4	-3.7%
149th	Namibia	13.5	-2.8%
150th	Congo, Republic of	13.5	-2.0%
151st	Peru	13.5	-28.0%
152nd	Kosovo	14.1	-5.6%
153rd	Saudi Arabia	14.1	-5.2%
154th	Sudan	14.4	-1.0%
155th	Zambia	14.5	-1.8%
156th	Guatemala	14.9	-6.9%
157th	El Salvador	15.0	-2.8%
158th	Eswatini	15.0	-2.1%
159th	Lesotho	15.0	-2.0%
160th	Myanmar	15.1	-2.4%
161st	Iran, Islamic Republic of	15.5	-4.9%
162nd	Mauritania	15.9	-0.9%
163rd	Morocco	16.2	-2.5%
164th	Mongolia	16.3	-2.8%
165th	Pakistan	16.5	15.8%
166th	India	16.8	-1.2%
167th	Gabon	16.9	-2.0%
168th	Monaco	17.0	0.6%
169th	Isle of Man	17.2	0.2%
170th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	17.3	-1.8%
171st	Djibouti	17.3	0.5%
172nd	Madagascar	17.4	-1.1%
173rd	Haiti	17.9	-1.4%
174th	Cameroon	18.0	-2.2%
175th	Uganda	18.0	9.8%
176th	Tanzania	18.4	-1.6%
177th	Ghana	18.5	-1.6%
178th	Rwanda	18.6	1.6%
179th	Togo	18.6	-1.7%
180th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	18.8	-1.9%
181st	Oman	19.0	-5.2%
182nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	19.2	-0.7%
183rd	Maldives	19.5	-3.8%
184th	Central African Republic	19.7	-2.4%
185th	Lao PDR	20.2	-1.2%
186th	Comoros	20.3	-2.4%
187th	Côte d'Ivoire	20.6	-3.1%
188th	Nepal	20.6	-1.8%
189th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	20.9	-1.1%
190th	Algeria	21.0	-2.3%
191st	Burundi	21.6	0.2%
192nd	Bhutan	21.9	-2.5%
193rd	Eritrea	21.9	-1.7%
194th	Mozambique	22.2	-0.8%
195th	Cambodia	23.1	-1.8%
196th	Benin	23.2	-1.7%
197th	Senegal	23.2	-1.7%
198th	Liberia	23.5	-1.7%
199th	Nigeria	23.8	-1.9%
200th	Gambia, The	23.8	-1.9%
201st	Chad	24.0	2.0%
202nd	Angola	24.3	-2.6%
203rd	Timor-Leste	24.4	-2.4%
204th	Burkina Faso	24.7	-0.9%
205th	Guinea	25.3	-1.0%
206th	Guinea-Bissau	25.6	0.2%
207th	Yemen, Republic of	25.6	-4.1%
208th	Sierra Leone	26.1	-1.6%
209th	Afghanistan	26.4	-1.7%
210th	Equatorial Guinea	27.4	-18.7%
211th	Malawi	28.2	-1.8%
212th	Niger	28.7	2.3%
213th	Mali	31.1	-1.2%
214th	South Sudan	33.7	-18.5%
215th	Bangladesh	39.9	80.0%

FAQ

What was United States's death rate in 1971?▾

United States's death rate in 1971 was 9.3. This ranked 79th globally.

How did United States's death rate change in 1971?▾

United States's death rate decreased by 2.1% in 1971 compared to 1970.

Which country had the highest death rate in 1971?▾

Bangladesh had the highest death rate in 1971 at 39.9.

What is the death rate of United States in 1971?▾

The death rate of United States in 1971 was 9.3. This ranked 79th globally.

How does 1971 compare to 1970 for United States's death rate?▾

United States's death rate went from 9.5 in 1970 to 9.3 in 1971, a 2.1% decrease.

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