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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.

  4. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    Leading cause of death (2016) (world) The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths.

  5. 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.

  6. Suicide in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    74.1% of suicides in England and Wales in 2022 were males. [28] The suicide rate in 2023 was the highest since 1999, while also being the highest rate for males since 1999 and the highest rate for females since 1994. [3] In terms of regions, London had the lowest suicide rate in 2023, while North West England had the highest. [3]

  7. Bills of mortality - Wikipedia

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    When someone died within the prescribed limits of London a message was sent to a searcher by an undertaker or relative or friend with the name, age and cause of death of the deceased. The searcher would then proceed to the place of death for an inspection to authenticate the information. For this service they were entitled to ask a fee of one ...

  8. Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.

  9. Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom

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    There was also large regional variation in the pandemic's severity. The outbreak in London had the highest number and highest rate of infections. [16] England was the UK country with the highest recorded death rate per capita, followed by Wales and then Scotland, while Northern Ireland has the lowest per capita. [17]