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25 countries in the world with the highest death rate

25 countries, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, tell its flag from three others, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The countries

  1. 1Monaco20.1 per 1,000
  2. 2Bulgaria15.6 per 1,000
  3. 3Serbia14.9 per 1,000
  4. 4Latvia14.3 per 1,000
  5. 5Moldova13.8 per 1,000
  6. 6Ukraine13.6 per 1,000
  7. 7Bosnia and Herzegovina13.5 per 1,000
  8. 8Hungary13.4 per 1,000
  9. 9Japan13.3 per 1,000
  10. 10Croatia13.2 per 1,000
  11. 11Belarus13.1 per 1,000
  12. 12Lithuania13 per 1,000
  13. 13Romania12.8 per 1,000
  14. 14Dominica12.6 per 1,000
  15. 15Russia12.4 per 1,000
  16. 16Germany12.1 per 1,000
  17. 17Greece12.1 per 1,000
  18. 18Georgia11.8 per 1,000
  19. 19Palau11.7 per 1,000
  20. 20Nigeria11.6 per 1,000
  21. 21Estonia11.5 per 1,000
  22. 22Saint Vincent and the Grenadines11.5 per 1,000
  23. 23Poland11.2 per 1,000
  24. 24Chad11.1 per 1,000
  25. 25North Macedonia11.1 per 1,000

The crude death rate: deaths in a year per 1,000 people (World Bank WDI SP.DYN.CDRT.IN, from the UN’s World Population Prospects, 2024). An old population has a high one even where people live long. Each item names its year; a country without a recent figure is left out. Sources: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0.

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Map of 25 countries in the world with the highest death rate, 25 countries: each one marked on the globe

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