Which country has the highest Hypertension-Related Deaths?

China has the highest Hypertension-Related Deaths in 2023, at 4,299,345, followed by India (1,156,123) and United States (905,992).

Which country has the lowest Hypertension-Related Deaths?

Tokelau has the lowest Hypertension-Related Deaths in 2023, at 2.

What is the median Hypertension-Related Deaths across countries?

The median is 9,923 across the 204 countries with data in 2023.

Where does this hypertension rates by country data come from?

Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Prevalence of hypertension among adults aged 30-79 years - WHO; Hypertension - CDC; Hypertension - WHO; Prevalence rate of hypertension in adults aged 30-79, 2019 - Our World in Data.

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Hypertension Rates by Country

Name: Hypertension Rates by Country
Creator: Rankodex

China has the highest Hypertension-Related Deaths in 2023 (4,299,345), followed by India (1,156,123) and United States (905,992). Tokelau has the lowest (2).

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Median

9,923

Middle half 1.8K – 34.4K

Average

65,454

204 countries

Lowest (best)

Tokelau

Highest (worst)

4,299,345

China

Over time · 2019–2023

The top 5 in 2023, against the median.

Median of all countries
Tokelau
Niue
Nauru
Tuvalu
Palau

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204 countries · # = rank by Hypertension-Related Deaths

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1	Tokelau	2	137.4 per 100k
2	Niue	3	167.5 per 100k
3	Nauru	4	31.3 per 100k
4	Tuvalu	9	81.0 per 100k
5	Palau	11	59.3 per 100k
6	Northern Mariana Islands	25	52.0 per 100k
6	Marshall Islands	25	58.9 per 100k
8	American Samoa	37	75.0 per 100k
9	Kiribati	48	37.6 per 100k
10	Greenland	52	92.0 per 100k
11	Cook Islands	58	395.8 per 100k
12	Tonga	59	56.7 per 100k
13	Micronesia	79	76.8 per 100k
14	San Marino	86	245.4 per 100k
15	Monaco	91	234.7 per 100k
16	Saint Kitts and Nevis	110	229.9 per 100k
17	Iceland	150	38.7 per 100k
18	Andorra	157	173.3 per 100k
19	Vanuatu	165	50.0 per 100k
20	Samoa	212	96.9 per 100k
21	Brunei	213	46.3 per 100k
22	Bermuda	231	366.1 per 100k
23	Guam	244	155.0 per 100k
24	Dominica	267	386.5 per 100k
25	Sao Tome and Principe	324	145.8 per 100k
26	Seychelles	325	306.4 per 100k
27	Solomon Islands	336	39.1 per 100k
28	Antigua and Barbuda	340	374.9 per 100k
29	Grenada	352	308.9 per 100k
30	United States Virgin Islands	373	443.9 per 100k
31	Maldives	395	72.7 per 100k
32	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	494	425.6 per 100k
33	Saint Lucia	616	344.2 per 100k
34	Malta	665	119.5 per 100k
35	Montenegro	680	104.0 per 100k
36	Luxembourg	695	105.4 per 100k
37	Belize	718	173.5 per 100k
38	Fiji	781	83.2 per 100k
39	Bhutan	813	109.0 per 100k
40	Mongolia	1,059	30.6 per 100k
41	Equatorial Guinea	1,113	68.4 per 100k
42	Barbados	1,163	386.3 per 100k
43	Bahamas	1,279	309.8 per 100k
44	Cape Verde	1,283	259.4 per 100k
45	Cyprus	1,292	94.4 per 100k
46	Suriname	1,310	220.6 per 100k
47	Eswatini	1,455	122.7 per 100k
48	Belarus	1,465	15.4 per 100k
49	Timor-Leste	1,513	105.5 per 100k
50	Guyana	1,659	203.3 per 100k
51	Bahrain	1,732	110.6 per 100k
52	Guinea-Bissau	1,803	83.1 per 100k
53	Comoros	1,861	210.9 per 100k
54	Djibouti	1,887	135.8 per 100k
55	Qatar	2,279	73.4 per 100k
56	Lesotho	2,509	130.7 per 100k
57	Ireland	2,591	48.7 per 100k
58	Gambia	2,844	112.7 per 100k
59	Gabon	2,874	150.2 per 100k
60	New Zealand	2,963	57.9 per 100k
61	Turkmenistan	3,070	54.7 per 100k
62	Norway	3,079	56.3 per 100k
63	Latvia	3,219	170.0 per 100k
64	Namibia	3,544	117.7 per 100k
65	Denmark	3,565	60.3 per 100k
65	Botswana	3,565	145.8 per 100k
67	Trinidad and Tobago	3,601	259.6 per 100k
68	Lithuania	3,703	130.5 per 100k
69	Albania	3,714	153.2 per 100k
70	Mauritius	3,733	292.9 per 100k
71	Kyrgyzstan	4,241	58.5 per 100k
72	Central African Republic	4,522	68.9 per 100k
73	El Salvador	4,694	75.9 per 100k
74	North Macedonia	4,799	259.1 per 100k
75	Papua New Guinea	4,803	43.2 per 100k
76	Israel	4,859	48.6 per 100k
77	Republic of the Congo	5,345	87.4 per 100k
78	Uruguay	5,441	159.9 per 100k
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	5,526	173.1 per 100k
80	Liberia	5,876	102.5 per 100k
81	Mauritania	5,954	129.5 per 100k
82	Palestine	6,053	111.9 per 100k
83	Moldova	6,185	171.4 per 100k
84	Panama	6,188	147.3 per 100k
85	Oman	6,233	121.4 per 100k
86	Estonia	6,334	468.0 per 100k
87	Croatia	6,516	167.6 per 100k
88	Guatemala	6,676	40.5 per 100k
89	Belgium	6,730	58.0 per 100k
90	Nicaragua	6,746	99.0 per 100k
91	Armenia	6,751	222.7 per 100k
92	Slovenia	7,335	346.6 per 100k
93	Kuwait	7,434	158.9 per 100k
94	Laos	7,471	99.3 per 100k
95	Sierra Leone	8,325	103.9 per 100k
96	Tajikistan	8,433	78.9 per 100k
97	Costa Rica	9,237	177.4 per 100k
98	Georgia	9,422	263.1 per 100k
99	Eritrea	9,477	134.9 per 100k
100	Slovakia	9,623	177.6 per 100k
101	Azerbaijan	9,671	91.9 per 100k
102	Togo	9,861	115.3 per 100k
103	Paraguay	9,984	157.9 per 100k
104	Jamaica	10,191	358.0 per 100k
105	Singapore	10,206	179.3 per 100k
106	Haiti	10,310	76.4 per 100k
107	South Sudan	10,685	108.5 per 100k
108	Kazakhstan	11,359	55.7 per 100k
109	Lebanon	11,491	201.4 per 100k
110	Greece	11,875	111.2 per 100k
111	Burundi	12,751	89.3 per 100k
112	Honduras	13,061	121.9 per 100k
113	Bolivia	13,353	110.6 per 100k
114	Libya	13,459	181.8 per 100k
115	Chad	14,270	74.0 per 100k
116	Benin	14,595	102.7 per 100k
117	Serbia	14,742	164.3 per 100k
118	Netherlands	15,135	85.1 per 100k
119	Finland	15,277	275.1 per 100k
120	United Arab Emirates	15,424	152.2 per 100k
121	Guinea	15,588	110.0 per 100k
122	Zimbabwe	16,222	101.8 per 100k
123	Zambia	17,301	82.6 per 100k
124	Switzerland	17,454	194.1 per 100k
125	Dominican Republic	17,709	157.9 per 100k
126	Malaysia	17,835	52.2 per 100k
127	Rwanda	18,520	132.9 per 100k
128	Puerto Rico	18,798	570.3 per 100k
129	Niger	19,528	73.3 per 100k
130	Malawi	19,557	94.3 per 100k
131	Somalia	20,624	94.3 per 100k
132	Uzbekistan	21,290	60.2 per 100k
133	Portugal	21,298	202.1 per 100k
134	Senegal	21,809	116.4 per 100k
135	Austria	22,032	243.1 per 100k
136	Mali	23,771	98.1 per 100k
137	Syria	23,904	134.4 per 100k
138	Czechia	23,937	219.8 per 100k
139	Cambodia	24,629	143.3 per 100k
140	Burkina Faso	26,692	110.0 per 100k
141	Angola	27,195	75.4 per 100k
142	Jordan	27,243	206.4 per 100k
143	Nepal	27,667	89.1 per 100k
144	Afghanistan	28,432	78.5 per 100k
145	Mozambique	29,079	87.3 per 100k
146	Australia	29,217	108.4 per 100k
147	Hungary	29,300	304.4 per 100k
148	Ivory Coast	30,021	88.7 per 100k
149	Ukraine	30,595	77.8 per 100k
150	Madagascar	30,836	100.0 per 100k
151	Cameroon	31,942	94.3 per 100k
152	Sweden	34,171	322.3 per 100k
153	Ecuador	34,371	193.6 per 100k
154	Cuba	34,657	306.3 per 100k
155	Yemen	36,401	102.4 per 100k
156	Tunisia	36,421	304.1 per 100k
157	Bulgaria	37,395	539.9 per 100k
158	Chile	38,073	198.8 per 100k
159	Saudi Arabia	40,909	124.0 per 100k
160	Ghana	42,497	127.8 per 100k
161	Iraq	44,359	100.4 per 100k
162	Peru	45,944	127.2 per 100k
163	Uganda	47,545	104.3 per 100k
164	United Kingdom	48,468	70.1 per 100k
165	Venezuela	49,551	193.2 per 100k
166	Sri Lanka	49,563	218.8 per 100k
167	Sudan	50,102	133.6 per 100k
168	Romania	53,473	276.7 per 100k
169	North Korea	53,908	204.1 per 100k
170	Argentina	63,507	133.8 per 100k
171	Canada	66,239	172.5 per 100k
172	Kenya	71,261	136.7 per 100k
173	Myanmar	73,429	127.7 per 100k
174	Colombia	77,158	148.1 per 100k
175	Tanzania	78,472	120.0 per 100k
176	Morocco	80,062	216.9 per 100k
177	DR Congo	80,870	85.8 per 100k
178	South Korea	91,773	177.5 per 100k
179	Thailand	94,722	144.1 per 100k
180	Spain	101,307	212.5 per 100k
181	South Africa	102,615	160.2 per 100k
182	Taiwan	104,269	449.1 per 100k
183	Algeria	104,710	235.4 per 100k
184	Russia	112,231	75.5 per 100k
185	Ethiopia	129,073	113.8 per 100k
186	Mexico	130,132	98.7 per 100k
187	Egypt	136,443	124.3 per 100k
188	Poland	142,339	364.8 per 100k
189	Bangladesh	143,122	82.3 per 100k
190	Philippines	150,446	131.4 per 100k
191	Pakistan	151,529	62.1 per 100k
192	Iran	189,844	215.9 per 100k
193	Japan	198,382	159.1 per 100k
194	Vietnam	212,826	206.3 per 100k
195	Nigeria	215,516	88.0 per 100k
196	Turkey	217,592	253.4 per 100k
197	France	247,557	354.3 per 100k
198	Germany	254,723	301.7 per 100k
199	Italy	291,087	494.3 per 100k
200	Indonesia	418,745	145.7 per 100k
201	Brazil	423,458	199.7 per 100k
202	United States	905,992	270.1 per 100k
203	India	1,156,123	80.1 per 100k
204	China	4,299,345	300.5 per 100k

What correlates with Hypertension-Related Deaths (2023)?

Pearson r against 1,362 other country metrics sharing at least 123 countries. Correlation is not causation.

Higher together

Places that have a higher Hypertension-Related Deaths tend to score higher on these

Individuals Who Took One or More COVID BoosterCOVID Vaccines by Country
r = +0.99 · very strong · n = 178
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Total Egg ConsumptionEgg Consumption by Country
r = +0.99 · very strong · n = 174
Plot
Social Media UsersSocial Media Users by Country
r = +0.99 · very strong · n = 202
Plot
Dementia PrevalenceDementia Rates by Country
r = +0.98 · very strong · n = 204
Plot
Dementia IncidenceDementia Rates by Country
r = +0.98 · very strong · n = 204
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Mortality All - CasesCancer Rates by Country
r = +0.98 · very strong · n = 178
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Opposite directions

Places that have a higher Hypertension-Related Deaths tend to score lower on these

US Trade BalanceUS Trade Deficit by Country
r = −0.55 · strong · n = 197
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Global FirePower IndexMilitary Strength Index by Country
r = −0.26 · weak · n = 144
Plot
GGGI Health ScoreGlobal Gender Gap by Country
r = −0.23 · weak · n = 148
Plot
Average Men's Shoe Size (US sizes)Shoe Size by Country
r = −0.21 · weak · n = 159
Plot
Chlamydial Infection RateSTD Rates by Country
r = −0.20 · weak · n = 201
Plot
Press Freedom Index Score (RSF)Freedom Index by Country
r = −0.18 · weak · n = 174
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Quick answers

Which country has the highest Hypertension-Related Deaths?: China has the highest Hypertension-Related Deaths in 2023, at 4,299,345, followed by India (1,156,123) and United States (905,992).
Which country has the lowest Hypertension-Related Deaths?: Tokelau has the lowest Hypertension-Related Deaths in 2023, at 2.
What is the median Hypertension-Related Deaths across countries?: The median is 9,923 across the 204 countries with data in 2023.
Where does this hypertension rates by country data come from?: Rankodex compiles it from World Population Review and the primary sources it cites: Prevalence of hypertension among adults aged 30-79 years - WHO; Hypertension - CDC; Hypertension - WHO; Prevalence rate of hypertension in adults aged 30-79, 2019 - Our World in Data.

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