General mortality rate

(deaths per 1,000 inhabitants)

Costa is the top region by mortality rate in Ecuador. As of 2016, mortality rate in Costa was 4.38 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants that accounts for 34.32% of Ecuador's mortality rate. The top 4 regions (others are Sierra, Amazónica, and Insular) account for 100.00% of it. Ecuador's total mortality rate was estimated at 12.76 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants in 2016.

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What is mortality rate?

It is the number of deaths referring to the population projections based on the 2010 Census, multiplied by 1000