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Total Number of Deaths Worldwide per year
Category: Health Asked by: graye-ga List Price: $3.00 |
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18 Feb 2005 15:30 PST
Expires: 20 Mar 2005 15:30 PST Question ID: 476831 |
The total Number of Death world wide each year. Estimate's are welcome. No repeat NO breakdown or categories, just the total number. |
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Re: Total Number of Deaths Worldwide per year
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 18 Feb 2005 16:08 PST Rated: |
There are between 56 and 57 million deaths each year worldwide. WORLDWIDE SITUATION - 57 million deaths per year Source: Principles of Infectious Disease Epidemiology / EPI 220 UCLA School of Public Health / Department of Epidemiology Instructor: Scott P. Layne, MD / Fall 2004 http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/layne/Epidemiology%20220/01.intro.pdf ?According the World Health Organization's statistics, chronic NCDs such CVDs, diabetes, cancers, obesity and respiratory diseases, account for about 60% of the 56.5 million deaths each year and almost half of the global burden of disease.? Source: International Journal for Equity in Health http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/4/1/2 ?The WHO says that in 2000 cancer was responsible for 12 per cent of the nearly 56 million deaths worldwide from all causes.? Source: Cancer Decisions http://www.cancerdecisions.com/040903_page.html The increase in deaths estimated by the World Health Organization is a tiny fraction of 56 million deaths reported annually around the globe for all reasons. CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/04/tech/main604166.shtml Search criteria: ?* million deaths" worldwide each year I hope this is helpful. Best regards, Bobbie7 |
graye-ga
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Above and beyond. Very nice |
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Re: Total Number of Deaths Worldwide per year
From: pafalafa-ga on 18 Feb 2005 16:12 PST |
In human populations, a good rule of thumb is that 1% of the population kicks the bucket every year. So, on a planet of 6 billion people, you would figure about 60 million die each year, which jives very well with bobbie7-ga's numbers. |
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