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  2. Mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    The crude death rate is defined as "the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population," calculated as the "total number of deaths during a given time interval" divided by the "mid-interval population", per 1,000 or 100,000; for instance, the population of the United States was around 290,810,000 in 2003, and in that year, approximately 2,419,900 deaths occurred in total, giving a ...

  3. List of countries by mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of countries by rate of natural increase - Wikipedia

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    Rates are the average annual number of births or deaths during a year per 1,000 persons; these are also known as crude birth or death rates. Column four is from the UN Population Division [3] and shows a projection for the average natural increase rate for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Blank cells in column four ...

  5. Demographics of Lesotho - Wikipedia

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    The annual population growth rate is estimated at 0.13% [2] According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [ 3 ] [ 4 ] the total population was 2,281,454 in 2021, compared to only 734 000 in 1950.

  6. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    For example, economics may result in certain therapies or screenings being expensive rather than produced at an affordable price or medication costs being too high for an individual to afford them even if they are made available at low cost, poverty can affect nutrition, marketing can increase the consumption of unhealthy products, incentives ...

  7. Standardized mortality ratio - Wikipedia

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    Standardized mortality rate tells how many persons, per thousand of the population, will die in a given year and what the causes of death will be. Such statistics have many uses: [ citation needed ] Life insurance companies periodically update their premiums based on the mortality rate , adjusted for age.

  8. Famine scales - Wikipedia

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    Under-five mortality rate (U5MR), i.e. number of deaths of children under five years of age within a time span 2/10,000/day = "serious situation" 4/10,000/day = "emergency out of control" The use of these cut-offs is contentious. Some argue that a crude mortality rate of one death per ten thousand people per day is already a full-scale ...

  9. Death rates in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Fertility rates and consequently live birth rates declined over the century, while age-adjusted death rates fell more dramatically. Children in 1999 were 10 times less likely to die than children in 1900. For adults 24–65, death rates have been halved. The death rate for Americans aged 65 to 74 fell from nearly 7% per year to fewer than 2% ...