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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.
Death toll Event Countries affected Type Date 2001 13,805–20,023 2001 Gujarat earthquake: India Earthquake January 26 2002 1,200 2002 Hindu Kush earthquakes: Afghanistan March 25 2003 72,000 2003 European heat wave: Europe Heat wave July – August 2004 227,898 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
1998 Yangtze river flood China: 1998 3,500 [citation needed] 1948 Fuzhou flood China: 1948 3,189+ 2010 China floods, landslides China, North Korea: 2010 3,083 [7] 1993 South Asian Monsoon Flood: Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan: 1993 3,076 [citation needed] 2004 Eastern India, Bangladesh monsoon rain India, Bangladesh: 2004 3,000 [6] 1530 ...
1966 Flood of the Arno River: Italy: 35: heavy rains and snowmelting 1967: 1967 Portugal floods: Portugal: The official death toll was 495 deaths. Unofficial estimates are of at least 700 deaths. heavy rains 1968: Great Flood of 1968: United Kingdom, France: 0: heavy rains and thunderstorms 1970: 1970 floods in Romania: Romania: 209: heavy ...
The dense jungle was alive with venomous snakes, insects, and spiders, but the worst challenges were yellow fever, malaria, and other tropical diseases, which killed thousands of workers; by 1884, the death rate was over 200 per month. [42] Public health measures were ineffective because the role of the mosquito as a disease vector was then ...
In Austria, the levels of rivers and reservoirs fell overnight as rain eased but officials said they were bracing for a second wave as heavier rain was expected. ($1 = 3.8398 zlotys)
Estimates of the death rate caused by this epidemic range from one third to as much as sixty percent. [70] By around 1420, the accumulated effect of recurring plagues and famines had reduced the population of Europe to perhaps no more than a third of what it was a century earlier. [ 71 ]
Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration ...