Countries with Highest Death Rate (2026)

Monaco has the highest death rate at 21.0 deaths per 1,000 people. High death rates can be driven by aging populations (as in many European countries) or by health crises and limited medical infrastructure.

#1

Monaco

21.0 per 1,000

#2

Bulgaria

15.7 per 1,000

#3

Latvia

14.9 per 1,000

Countries with Highest Death Rate - 216 countries ranked by Death Rate

Rank	Country	Death Rate	Population	Region
1	Monaco	21.0 per 1,000	38,423	Europe
2	Bulgaria	15.7 per 1,000	6,437,360	Europe
3	Latvia	14.9 per 1,000	1,829,000	Europe
4	Serbia	14.7 per 1,000	6,567,783	Europe
5	Moldova	13.6 per 1,000	2,749,076	Europe
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.5 per 1,000	3,422,000	Europe
7	Hungary	13.4 per 1,000	9,539,502	Europe
8	Belarus	13.3 per 1,000	9,109,280	Europe
9	Croatia	13.3 per 1,000	3,866,233	Europe
10	Ukraine	13.1 per 1,000	32,862,000	Europe
11	Japan	13.0 per 1,000	123,210,000	Asia
12	Lithuania	12.9 per 1,000	2,894,886	Europe
13	Dominica	12.8 per 1,000	67,408	Americas
14	Romania	12.7 per 1,000	19,036,031	Europe
15	Germany	12.3 per 1,000	83,491,249	Europe
16	Greece	12.2 per 1,000	10,400,720	Europe
17	Russia	12.1 per 1,000	146,028,325	Europe
18	Georgia	11.8 per 1,000	4,000,921	Asia
19	Nigeria	11.7 per 1,000	223,800,000	Africa
20	Estonia	11.7 per 1,000	1,369,995	Europe
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.5 per 1,000	110,872	Americas
22	Palau	11.5 per 1,000	16,733	Oceania
23	Italy	11.2 per 1,000	58,927,633	Europe
24	Portugal	11.2 per 1,000	10,749,635	Europe
25	Poland	11.1 per 1,000	37,392,000	Europe
26	Chad	11.0 per 1,000	19,340,757	Africa
27	Finland	11.0 per 1,000	5,650,325	Europe
28	North Macedonia	11.0 per 1,000	1,822,612	Europe
29	Puerto Rico	10.7 per 1,000	3,203,295	Americas
30	Lesotho	10.7 per 1,000	2,116,427	Africa
31	Barbados	10.6 per 1,000	267,800	Americas
32	Isle of Man	10.5 per 1,000	84,530	Europe
33	Czechia	10.4 per 1,000	10,882,341	Europe
34	Slovenia	10.2 per 1,000	2,130,638	Europe
35	Cuba	10.2 per 1,000	9,748,007	Americas
36	Montenegro	10.1 per 1,000	623,327	Europe
37	Slovakia	10.0 per 1,000	5,413,813	Europe
38	Saint Kitts and Nevis	10.0 per 1,000	51,320	Americas
39	Somalia	9.8 per 1,000	19,655,000	Africa
40	Austria	9.8 per 1,000	9,200,931	Europe
41	Denmark	9.8 per 1,000	6,011,488	Europe
42	Uruguay	9.8 per 1,000	3,499,451	Americas
43	Curaçao	9.7 per 1,000	156,115	Americas
44	North Korea	9.7 per 1,000	25,950,000	Asia
45	South Sudan	9.6 per 1,000	15,786,898	Africa
46	United Kingdom	9.5 per 1,000	69,281,437	Europe
47	Netherlands	9.5 per 1,000	18,100,436	Europe
48	Central African Republic	9.4 per 1,000	6,470,307	Africa
49	Belgium	9.4 per 1,000	11,825,551	Europe
50	Mauritius	9.4 per 1,000	1,243,741	Africa
51	Greenland	9.4 per 1,000	56,542	Americas
52	Saint Martin	9.3 per 1,000	31,496	Americas
53	Fiji	9.3 per 1,000	900,869	Oceania
54	South Africa	9.2 per 1,000	63,100,945	Africa
55	United States	9.2 per 1,000	340,110,988	Americas
56	France	9.2 per 1,000	66,351,959	Europe
57	Myanmar	9.2 per 1,000	51,316,756	Asia
58	Tuvalu	9.1 per 1,000	10,643	Oceania
59	Guinea	9.1 per 1,000	14,363,931	Africa
60	Spain	9.0 per 1,000	49,315,949	Europe
61	Sweden	9.0 per 1,000	10,605,098	Europe
62	United States Virgin Islands	9.0 per 1,000	87,146	Americas
63	Thailand	8.9 per 1,000	65,859,640	Asia
64	Niger	8.9 per 1,000	26,312,034	Africa
65	Grenada	8.9 per 1,000	109,021	Americas
66	Bermuda	8.9 per 1,000	64,055	Americas
67	Benin	8.8 per 1,000	13,224,860	Africa
68	Bahamas	8.7 per 1,000	398,165	Americas
69	Mali	8.6 per 1,000	22,395,489	Africa
70	Saint Lucia	8.6 per 1,000	184,100	Americas
71	DR Congo	8.5 per 1,000	112,832,000	Africa
72	Trinidad and Tobago	8.4 per 1,000	1,367,764	Americas
73	Albania	8.3 per 1,000	2,363,314	Europe
74	San Marino	8.3 per 1,000	34,132	Europe
75	Sierra Leone	8.3 per 1,000	9,077,691	Africa
76	Sri Lanka	8.2 per 1,000	21,763,170	Asia
77	Armenia	8.2 per 1,000	3,076,200	Asia
78	Sint Maarten	8.1 per 1,000	41,349	Americas
79	Canada	8.1 per 1,000	41,651,653	Americas
80	Switzerland	8.1 per 1,000	9,082,848	Europe
81	Jamaica	8.1 per 1,000	2,825,544	Americas
82	Liberia	8.1 per 1,000	5,248,621	Africa
83	Burkina Faso	8.0 per 1,000	24,070,553	Africa
84	Norway	7.9 per 1,000	5,606,944	Europe
85	Equatorial Guinea	7.9 per 1,000	1,668,768	Africa
86	China	7.9 per 1,000	1,408,280,000	Asia
87	Haiti	7.8 per 1,000	11,867,032	Americas
88	Togo	7.7 per 1,000	8,095,498	Africa
89	Eswatini	7.7 per 1,000	1,235,549	Africa
90	Argentina	7.7 per 1,000	46,735,004	Americas
91	Ivory Coast	7.7 per 1,000	31,719,275	Africa
92	Micronesia	7.6 per 1,000	105,564	Oceania
93	Zimbabwe	7.6 per 1,000	17,073,087	Africa
94	Faroe Islands	7.6 per 1,000	54,885	Europe
95	Aruba	7.6 per 1,000	107,566	Americas
96	Venezuela	7.6 per 1,000	28,517,000	Americas
97	Indonesia	7.5 per 1,000	284,438,782	Asia
98	Madagascar	7.5 per 1,000	31,727,042	Africa
99	El Salvador	7.5 per 1,000	6,029,976	Americas
100	Nauru	7.5 per 1,000	11,680	Oceania
101	Djibouti	7.5 per 1,000	1,066,809	Africa
102	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.4 per 1,000	50,828	Americas
103	Guyana	7.3 per 1,000	772,975	Americas
104	Hong Kong	7.3 per 1,000	7,527,500	Asia
105	Malta	7.3 per 1,000	574,250	Europe
106	Seychelles	7.3 per 1,000	122,729	Africa
107	Timor-Leste	7.3 per 1,000	1,391,221	Asia
108	New Zealand	7.2 per 1,000	5,324,700	Oceania
109	Kenya	7.2 per 1,000	53,330,978	Africa
110	Palestine	7.2 per 1,000	5,483,450	Asia
111	Comoros	7.2 per 1,000	919,901	Africa
112	Bolivia	7.2 per 1,000	11,365,333	Americas
113	Cameroon	7.2 per 1,000	29,442,327	Africa
114	Brazil	7.1 per 1,000	213,421,037	Americas
115	Cyprus	7.1 per 1,000	1,442,614	Europe
116	Guinea-Bissau	7.0 per 1,000	1,781,308	Africa
117	Kiribati	7.0 per 1,000	120,740	Oceania
118	Ghana	7.0 per 1,000	33,742,380	Africa
119	American Samoa	7.0 per 1,000	49,710	Oceania
120	Mozambique	7.0 per 1,000	34,090,466	Africa
121	Marshall Islands	7.0 per 1,000	42,418	Oceania
122	Angola	6.9 per 1,000	36,170,961	Africa
123	Nepal	6.9 per 1,000	29,911,840	Asia
124	Australia	6.9 per 1,000	27,536,874	Oceania
125	Antigua and Barbuda	6.9 per 1,000	103,603	Americas
126	Guam	6.9 per 1,000	153,836	Oceania
127	Liechtenstein	6.8 per 1,000	40,900	Europe
128	Burundi	6.7 per 1,000	12,332,788	Africa
129	Kazakhstan	6.7 per 1,000	20,426,568	Asia
130	Libya	6.7 per 1,000	7,459,000	Africa
131	Suriname	6.7 per 1,000	616,500	Americas
132	India	6.6 per 1,000	1,417,492,000	Asia
133	Ireland	6.6 per 1,000	5,458,600	Europe
134	Luxembourg	6.6 per 1,000	681,973	Europe
135	Iceland	6.6 per 1,000	391,810	Europe
136	Vietnam	6.6 per 1,000	101,343,800	Asia
137	Papua New Guinea	6.5 per 1,000	11,781,559	Oceania
138	Gibraltar	6.5 per 1,000	38,000	Europe
139	Chile	6.5 per 1,000	20,206,953	Americas
140	Pakistan	6.5 per 1,000	241,499,431	Asia
141	Tonga	6.4 per 1,000	100,179	Oceania
142	Sudan	6.4 per 1,000	51,662,000	Africa
143	Cambodia	6.4 per 1,000	17,577,760	Asia
144	Republic of the Congo	6.3 per 1,000	6,142,180	Africa
145	Gambia	6.3 per 1,000	2,422,712	Africa
146	Gabon	6.3 per 1,000	2,469,296	Africa
147	New Caledonia	6.3 per 1,000	264,596	Oceania
148	Dominican Republic	6.3 per 1,000	10,771,504	Americas
149	Philippines	6.2 per 1,000	114,123,600	Asia
150	Laos	6.2 per 1,000	7,647,000	Asia
151	Uzbekistan	6.2 per 1,000	37,859,698	Asia
152	Turkey	6.2 per 1,000	85,664,944	Asia
153	Singapore	6.2 per 1,000	6,110,200	Asia
154	Namibia	6.2 per 1,000	3,022,401	Africa
155	Mexico	6.2 per 1,000	130,575,786	Americas
156	Samoa	6.2 per 1,000	205,557	Oceania
157	Bhutan	6.1 per 1,000	784,043	Asia
158	Andorra	6.1 per 1,000	88,406	Europe
159	Tunisia	6.1 per 1,000	11,972,169	Africa
160	Eritrea	6.0 per 1,000	3,607,000	Africa
161	South Korea	6.0 per 1,000	51,159,889	Asia
162	British Virgin Islands	6.0 per 1,000	39,471	Americas
163	Ethiopia	6.0 per 1,000	111,652,998	Africa
164	Lebanon	6.0 per 1,000	5,490,000	Asia
165	Rwanda	5.9 per 1,000	14,104,969	Africa
166	Azerbaijan	5.9 per 1,000	10,241,722	Asia
167	Kosovo	5.9 per 1,000	1,585,566	Europe
168	Afghanistan	5.8 per 1,000	43,844,000	Asia
169	Tanzania	5.8 per 1,000	68,153,004	Africa
170	Turkmenistan	5.8 per 1,000	7,057,841	Asia
171	Botswana	5.7 per 1,000	2,359,609	Africa
172	Paraguay	5.7 per 1,000	6,109,644	Americas
173	Morocco	5.6 per 1,000	36,828,330	Africa
174	Senegal	5.6 per 1,000	18,593,258	Africa
175	São Tomé and Príncipe	5.6 per 1,000	209,607	Africa
176	Mauritania	5.5 per 1,000	4,927,532	Africa
177	Mongolia	5.5 per 1,000	3,544,835	Asia
178	Peru	5.5 per 1,000	34,350,244	Americas
179	Egypt	5.5 per 1,000	107,271,260	Africa
180	Costa Rica	5.5 per 1,000	5,309,625	Americas
181	Colombia	5.4 per 1,000	53,057,212	Americas
182	Malawi	5.4 per 1,000	20,734,262	Africa
183	Brunei	5.2 per 1,000	455,500	Asia
184	Zambia	5.2 per 1,000	19,693,423	Africa
185	Israel	5.2 per 1,000	10,134,800	Asia
186	Malaysia	5.2 per 1,000	34,231,700	Asia
187	Solomon Islands	5.1 per 1,000	750,325	Oceania
188	Ecuador	5.1 per 1,000	18,103,660	Americas
189	Vanuatu	5.1 per 1,000	321,409	Oceania
190	Cape Verde	5.1 per 1,000	491,233	Africa
191	Syria	5.0 per 1,000	25,620,000	Asia
192	Bangladesh	5.0 per 1,000	169,828,911	Asia
193	Belize	4.9 per 1,000	417,634	Americas
194	Uganda	4.8 per 1,000	45,905,417	Africa
195	Guatemala	4.8 per 1,000	18,079,810	Americas
196	Cayman Islands	4.8 per 1,000	84,738	Americas
197	Yemen	4.8 per 1,000	32,684,503	Asia
198	Panama	4.8 per 1,000	4,064,780	Americas
199	Northern Mariana Islands	4.7 per 1,000	47,329	Oceania
200	Iran	4.7 per 1,000	85,961,000	Asia
201	Algeria	4.6 per 1,000	47,400,000	Africa
202	Nicaragua	4.6 per 1,000	6,803,886	Americas
203	Tajikistan	4.6 per 1,000	10,499,000	Asia
204	Honduras	4.5 per 1,000	9,892,632	Americas
205	Kyrgyzstan	4.4 per 1,000	7,281,800	Asia
206	Macau	4.4 per 1,000	685,900	Asia
207	Iraq	4.1 per 1,000	46,118,793	Asia
208	French Polynesia	3.6 per 1,000	279,500	Oceania
209	Jordan	3.0 per 1,000	11,734,000	Asia
210	Saudi Arabia	2.3 per 1,000	35,300,280	Asia
211	Maldives	2.3 per 1,000	515,132	Asia
212	Bahrain	2.1 per 1,000	1,594,654	Asia
213	Oman	1.9 per 1,000	5,343,630	Asia
214	Kuwait	1.5 per 1,000	4,881,254	Asia
215	United Arab Emirates	0.9 per 1,000	11,294,243	Asia
216	Qatar	0.9 per 1,000	3,173,024	Asia