Calculate crude, cause-specific, age-specific, infant, neonatal and under-5 mortality rates, the maternal mortality ratio and proportional mortality.
About this tool
Crude, cause-specific, infant and maternal mortality rates with CIs.
How to use Mortality Rate Calculator
- Choose the type of rate.
- Enter the deaths and the population, live births or total deaths.
- Read the rate per the standard multiplier with its interval.
Worked example
820 deaths in a mid-year population of 104,000 is a crude death rate of 7.88 per 1,000.
Why can crude death rates mislead?
Older populations have more deaths. Compare populations with age-specific or age-standardized rates.
Is maternal mortality a rate or a ratio?
It is usually a ratio: maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, because live births stand in for pregnancies.
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