The annual number of deaths per 1,000 members of a population is called Death Rate. It is also known as Mortality Rate and it serves to measure the amount of deaths in a certain population during a certain period of time.
For example, the 5 countries with the highest death rates are 1) Lesotho with 14.9 deaths per 1000 people, 2) Bulgaria, with 14,5, 3) Lithuania, with 14,5, 4) Ukraine with 14,4, 5) Latvia, with 14,4.
