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United States - Death Rate 1978

Name: United States Death Rate 1978
Creator: World Bank
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Crude death rate per 1,000 people · World Bank

8.7 +0.1 from 1977 Global rank: 82nd

United States's death rate was 8.7 in 1978, increased +0.1 from 8.6 in 1977. This was the 82nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 1978▾

Death Rate by Country - 1978
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Kuwait	3.8	-5.4%
2nd	Qatar	3.8	-5.4%
3rd	Andorra	3.9	-0.9%
4th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	4.2	0.2%
5th	Bahrain	4.2	-5.0%
6th	United Arab Emirates	4.4	-6.6%
7th	Guam	4.4	-2.3%
8th	Costa Rica	4.5	-2.9%
9th	St. Martin (French part)	4.5	-2.3%
10th	Aruba	4.8	-11.6%
11th	American Samoa	4.9	-0.4%
12th	Brunei Darussalam	4.9	-3.0%
13th	Hong Kong SAR, China	5.1	0.0%
14th	Singapore	5.1	0.0%
15th	Northern Mariana Islands	5.1	-1.1%
16th	Virgin Islands (US)	5.3	-0.9%
17th	Panama	5.5	-2.6%
18th	Bahamas, The	5.7	0.4%
19th	Malaysia	5.8	-2.4%
20th	French Polynesia	5.9	-4.5%
21st	Japan	6.1	0.0%
22nd	Cuba	6.2	-0.4%
23rd	China	6.3	-9.0%
24th	Greenland	6.3	-17.1%
25th	Puerto Rico (US)	6.3	-1.6%
26th	Antigua and Barbuda	6.3	0.2%
27th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	6.3	-2.3%
28th	Curaçao	6.4	0.1%
29th	Barbados	6.4	-2.5%
30th	Iceland	6.4	-1.5%
31st	Chile	6.4	-1.8%
32nd	Colombia	6.4	-3.2%
33rd	Liechtenstein	6.5	6.6%
34th	Tonga	6.5	-0.3%
35th	Jordan	6.6	-4.3%
36th	St. Lucia	6.8	-1.6%
37th	Israel	6.8	-1.4%
38th	Korea	6.8	0.0%
39th	British Virgin Islands	6.8	0.7%
40th	Sri Lanka	6.9	-1.7%
41st	North Macedonia	6.9	-3.9%
42nd	Albania	6.9	-1.8%
43rd	Samoa	7.0	-2.2%
44th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	7.0	2.8%
45th	Grenada	7.0	3.4%
46th	Syrian Arab Republic	7.1	-4.3%
47th	Canada	7.1	0.0%
48th	Faroe Islands	7.1	9.2%
49th	Mauritius	7.1	-9.0%
50th	Montenegro	7.2	0.3%
51st	Fiji	7.2	-1.9%
52nd	Dominica	7.2	-0.7%
53rd	Trinidad and Tobago	7.2	0.3%
54th	Bermuda	7.3	0.6%
55th	San Marino	7.3	3.0%
56th	Mexico	7.4	-3.1%
57th	New Caledonia	7.4	-2.8%
58th	Australia	7.5	-1.3%
59th	Seychelles	7.5	-2.6%
60th	Gibraltar	7.5	0.9%
61st	Libya	7.7	-5.3%
62nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.8	-2.5%
63rd	New Zealand	7.9	-5.0%
64th	Belize	7.9	-1.0%
65th	Philippines	7.9	0.0%
66th	Micronesia, Federated States of	7.9	-2.1%
67th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	7.9	-1.0%
68th	Cayman Islands	7.9	-1.1%
69th	Dominican Republic	8.0	-2.8%
70th	Armenia	8.0	-1.2%
71st	Thailand	8.1	-1.9%
72nd	Spain	8.1	0.0%
73rd	Netherlands	8.2	3.8%
74th	Solomon Islands	8.3	-6.5%
75th	Macao SAR, China	8.4	-7.5%
76th	Jamaica	8.5	0.6%
77th	Cyprus	8.6	-2.0%
78th	Iraq	8.6	-2.3%
79th	Paraguay	8.6	-0.6%
80th	Viet Nam	8.6	-2.2%
81st	Greece	8.7	-3.3%
82nd	United States	8.7	1.2%
83rd	Ecuador	8.8	-3.5%
84th	Argentina	8.9	-0.9%
85th	Tunisia	8.9	-5.7%
86th	Brazil	8.9	-1.9%
87th	Vanuatu	9.0	-4.5%
88th	Botswana	9.0	-5.2%
89th	Guyana	9.1	-0.6%
90th	Belarus	9.1	2.2%
91st	Switzerland	9.2	3.4%
92nd	Finland	9.2	-1.1%
93rd	Serbia	9.3	5.1%
94th	Saudi Arabia	9.4	-5.8%
95th	Poland	9.4	4.4%
96th	Uzbekistan	9.5	-2.5%
97th	Azerbaijan	9.6	2.4%
98th	Italy	9.6	-2.0%
99th	Palau	9.6	-1.9%
100th	Georgia	9.7	-0.7%
101st	Romania	9.7	1.0%
102nd	Nauru	9.8	5.4%
103rd	Papua New Guinea	9.8	-2.6%
104th	Slovak Republic	9.8	1.0%
105th	Kazakhstan	9.8	0.0%
106th	Marshall Islands	9.8	-2.4%
107th	Uruguay	9.9	-0.2%
108th	Slovenia	9.9	3.1%
109th	Norway	10.0	2.0%
110th	Lithuania	10.1	3.1%
111th	Portugal	10.1	-1.0%
112th	Lebanon	10.1	1.3%
113th	Kyrgyz Republic	10.2	-1.9%
114th	South Africa	10.2	-2.8%
115th	France	10.2	-1.0%
116th	Ireland	10.2	0.0%
117th	Tuvalu	10.3	-1.5%
118th	Suriname	10.3	0.8%
119th	Türkiye	10.3	-4.1%
120th	Honduras	10.3	-2.6%
121st	European Union	10.3	1.0%
122nd	Kenya	10.4	-3.5%
123rd	Russian Federation	10.4	2.3%
124th	Denmark	10.4	5.1%
125th	Bulgaria	10.5	-1.9%
126th	Malta	10.5	11.7%
127th	Croatia	10.6	7.1%
128th	Ukraine	10.7	2.6%
129th	Moldova	10.8	0.4%
130th	Sweden	10.8	0.9%
131st	Indonesia	10.9	-2.4%
132nd	Turkmenistan	11.1	-3.0%
133rd	Kosovo	11.1	-3.1%
134th	Namibia	11.2	-2.1%
135th	Cabo Verde	11.5	-2.4%
136th	Kiribati	11.5	-4.8%
137th	Tajikistan	11.5	-1.2%
138th	Guatemala	11.5	-5.0%
139th	Peru	11.5	-2.8%
140th	São Tomé and Principe	11.6	-0.7%
141st	Luxembourg	11.6	2.7%
142nd	Belgium	11.7	1.7%
143rd	Channel Islands	11.7	0.0%
144th	Congo, Republic of	11.9	-1.7%
145th	United Kingdom	11.9	1.7%
146th	Eswatini	12.0	-4.1%
147th	St. Kitts and Nevis	12.0	0.8%
148th	El Salvador	12.1	-3.7%
149th	Oman	12.2	-7.4%
150th	Germany	12.2	2.5%
151st	Estonia	12.2	3.4%
152nd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	12.2	3.1%
153rd	Czechia	12.4	0.0%
154th	Austria	12.5	2.5%
155th	Latvia	12.5	0.8%
156th	Pakistan	12.6	-2.1%
157th	Zimbabwe	12.7	9.4%
158th	Morocco	12.9	-4.0%
159th	Nicaragua	12.9	9.9%
160th	Zambia	13.0	-0.5%
161st	Lesotho	13.1	-2.8%
162nd	Hungary	13.1	5.6%
163rd	Sudan	13.3	0.0%
164th	Myanmar	13.5	-1.2%
165th	Mongolia	14.0	-1.8%
166th	Djibouti	14.2	-1.9%
167th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	14.3	-3.5%
168th	India	14.4	-2.6%
169th	Gabon	14.5	-2.2%
170th	Mauritania	14.6	-1.8%
171st	Ghana	15.3	-1.2%
172nd	Algeria	15.5	-6.5%
173rd	Togo	15.8	-3.4%
174th	Maldives	15.8	5.2%
175th	Bangladesh	15.9	-1.5%
176th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	16.1	-2.1%
177th	Côte d'Ivoire	16.1	-3.9%
178th	Tanzania	16.1	-1.7%
179th	Madagascar	16.3	-0.2%
180th	Isle of Man	16.4	-0.9%
181st	Haiti	16.6	-1.1%
182nd	Monaco	16.6	-2.5%
183rd	Cameroon	16.7	-1.0%
184th	Central African Republic	17.3	-0.9%
185th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	17.6	-3.8%
186th	Comoros	17.6	-2.0%
187th	Nepal	17.8	-2.2%
188th	Bhutan	17.9	-3.1%
189th	Lao PDR	18.4	-1.8%
190th	Senegal	18.9	-3.5%
191st	Yemen, Republic of	19.2	-4.5%
192nd	Uganda	19.3	1.3%
193rd	Rwanda	19.5	-1.9%
194th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	19.6	0.0%
195th	Benin	19.8	-2.0%
196th	Eritrea	19.9	-1.7%
197th	Nigeria	20.1	-1.9%
198th	Burundi	20.5	-1.7%
199th	Burkina Faso	20.9	-2.6%
200th	Liberia	21.3	-1.1%
201st	Gambia, The	21.5	0.0%
202nd	Mozambique	21.6	0.6%
203rd	Angola	22.2	-1.4%
204th	Chad	22.5	-0.8%
205th	Equatorial Guinea	22.7	-1.7%
206th	Malawi	22.7	-3.7%
207th	Guinea-Bissau	23.3	0.6%
208th	Guinea	23.3	-1.6%
209th	Sierra Leone	23.6	-1.2%
210th	Afghanistan	24.2	3.3%
211th	Niger	26.3	-1.5%
212th	Mali	26.6	-2.5%
213th	South Sudan	26.7	-1.0%
214th	Timor-Leste	42.2	7.9%
215th	Cambodia	93.9	1.0%

FAQ

What was United States's death rate in 1978?▾

United States's death rate in 1978 was 8.7. This ranked 82nd globally.

How did United States's death rate change in 1978?▾

United States's death rate increased by 1.2% in 1978 compared to 1977.

Which country had the highest death rate in 1978?▾

Cambodia had the highest death rate in 1978 at 93.9.

What is the death rate of United States in 1978?▾

The death rate of United States in 1978 was 8.7. This ranked 82nd globally.

How does 1978 compare to 1977 for United States's death rate?▾

United States's death rate went from 8.6 in 1977 to 8.7 in 1978, a 1.2% increase.

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