Poland · Death Rate · per 1,000 people

## What this measures

Deaths per 1,000 people in Poland during the year (crude death rate).

## Why it matters

Together with births it sets natural population growth; in ageing countries it rises even as health improves.

## How to read it

Higher means more deaths relative to population. It first falls with development, then rises again as a population ages.

## What it does not say

A crude rate mixes mortality with age structure; it is not a measure of health on its own. Recent years are UN estimates.

## Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0 per the indicator's metadata), indicator `SP.DYN.CDRT.IN`, annual, dated December 31. Read weekly by the sovereign-panel sync, which rewrites the history so revisions carry through. Originally from UN World Population Prospects.