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Lesotho has a very high incidence rate of tuberculosis with 665 cases per 100,000 people (2017). Treatment success rate is 77% (2016). The mortality rate is 46 per 100,000 people (2017). [31] Approximately 70% of patients with tuberculosis in Lesotho are co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus. [32]
Crude mortality rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise.
The density is lower in the Lesotho Highlands than in the western lowlands. Although the majority of the population—56.1 percent—is between 15 and 64 years of age, Lesotho has a substantial youth population numbering around 37.8 percent. [2] The annual population growth rate is estimated at 0.13% [2]
Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, [18] a rate among the ten highest in the world. There are ...
Infant mortality is about 8.3%. As of 2018, Lesotho's adult H.I.V./A.I.D.S. prevalence rate of 23.6% was the second-highest in the world, after Eswatini. [77] In 2021, Lesotho had a 22.8% H.I.V. prevalence rate among people between 15 and 49 years of age. [78] The country has the highest incidence of tuberculosis in the world. [79]
Country Number of deaths (2023) China 11,684,177 India 9,507,008 United States 2,975,658 Nigeria 2,675,442 Indonesia 2,117,706 Russia 1,794,857 Pakistan 1,600,313
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.
This is a list of countries by cancer rate, as measured variously by the number of new cancer cases (frequency), or death rate ... Lesotho: 725 108.1 699 103.1