Talk:List of countries by death rate

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Do more americans die in the country than in the war

[edit] "deaths/1,000 population"

Was this meant to be "deaths/1,000 population and year"? "deaths/1,000 population" appears to make no sense as a unit of a death rate. Multi io 23:57, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the terminology is confusing, but it is similar to what I've seen in discussions of death rate elsewhere. Per-year seems to be assumed. pete

Isn't the death rate 100 percent?

[edit] Useless figure?

Without things like age profile this is a bit meaningless. Many countries that have low rates have very young populations. -- Q Chris (talk) 14:54, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

The same can be said of many demographic indicators. One should never look at individual figures in isolation. This list is simply what it says it is -- an ordered list of countries according to raw death rate. --Polaron | Talk 15:21, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Alternative sources

What do you guys think about using alternative sources, for example, official state statistics? A lot of these UN estimates are way off, like a lot of their other estimates. One example is Russia, which according to state statistics, has a 14.6 / 1000 death rate, rather than 16.2 [1]. Considering this is the only "list of countries by death rate" page, I think we should present the most accurate and up to date numbers available rather than go by one sources "estimates". Krawndawg (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2008 (UTC)