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The death rate of 13 per annum over the decade 2001–2010 [51] is a rate of approximately 0.26 per million population. This is approximately 30 times the rate in the United States but 1/90 of the African average. The number of cases per province over the last decade is as follows: [52]
This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 4 February 2025, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
Such deaths are sometimes evaluated via excess deaths per capita – the COVID-19 pandemic deaths between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, are estimated to be ~18.2 million. Research could help distinguish the proportions directly caused by COVID-19 from those caused by indirect consequences of the pandemic.
A PNAS report in September 2020 confirmed that the virus is much more dangerous for the elderly than the young, noting that about 70% of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths had occurred to those over the age of 70. [94] As of early August 2020, among the 45 countries that had over 50,000 cases, the U.S. had the eighth highest number of deaths per-capita.
Rabies causes about 59,000 deaths worldwide per year, [6] about 40% of which are in children under the age of 15. [16] More than 95% of human deaths from rabies occur in Africa and Asia. [1] Rabies is present in more than 150 countries and on all continents but Antarctica. [1] More than 3 billion people live in regions of the world where rabies ...
In 2022, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in the United States. Now, COVID-19 still takes the lives of more than 1,000 people per week nationwide, but the extent of its toll has diminished.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
The state confirmed 12 bats had rabies in 2021, including one in Thurston County. In 2020, there were eight confirmed cases and none in Thurston County. Bats are the primary animal that carry ...