| The display also shows the crude death rate and the infant mortality rate that would be calculated in the first year if you chose the corresponding life table. |
| In the period after 1807 most colonies experienced a decrease in the crude death rate. |
| The direct standardization method consists of asking what the crude death rate of the United Kingdom would be if it had the same age structure as Syria. |
| As an example, over the 1990-1995 period the crude death rate in Syria was 5.6 per thousand, while that of the United Kingdom was 9.4 per thousand. |
| The increase in the crude death rate is solely due to the aging of the population. |
| There are estimated to have been 4.8 million deaths in the EU27 in 2008, corresponding to a crude death rate of 9.7 per 1000 inhabitants. |
