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==Crude death rate, globally==
The crude death rate is defined as "the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population," calculated as the "[t]otaltotal number of deaths during a given time interval" divided by the "[m]idmid-interval population", per 1,000 or 100,000; for instance, the population of the [[United States|U.S.]] was around 290,810,000 in 2003, and in that year, approximately 2,419,900 deaths occurred in total, giving a crude death (mortality) rate of 832 deaths per 100,000.<ref name="cdc.gov"/>{{rp|3–20f}} {{As of|2020}}, the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] estimates the U.S. crude death rate will be 8.3 per 1,000, while it estimates that the global rate will be 7.7 per 1,000.<ref name=CIA2020/>
 
According to the [[World Health Organization]], the ten leading causes of death, globally, in 2016, for both sexes and all ages, were as presented in the table below.<ref>{{cite web| author = WHO Staff | date=2018|title=Global Health Observatory (GHO) data: Top 10 causes of death|location = Geneva, CH | publisher=World Health Organization | url=https://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/causes_death/top_10/en/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808230640/http://www.who.int/gho/mortality_burden_disease/causes_death/top_10/en/| url-status=dead| archive-date=August 8, 2014| access-date = January 31, 2020}}</ref>
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{{For|worldwide statistics|List of sovereign states and dependent territories by mortality rate}}
Causes of death vary greatly between developed and less [[developed countries]];{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} see also [[list of causes of death by rate]] for worldwide statistics.
 
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|+ World historical and predicted crude death rates (1950–2050) <br /><small>UN, medium variant, 2012 rev.</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=PopDiv&f=variableID:65|title=UNdata - record view - Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 population)|website=data.un.org}}</ref>