Cancer has been the No.1 cause of death in China, with the death toll accounting for one quarter of the global death toll due to cancer.

Hundreds killed by Indonesian quake, tsunami, with toll seen rising

Overall we lost 700,000 people.

The data on maternal death rate after the war are not reliable, but according to available data, where the cause of death is determined, the maternity death rate in 2000 was 8 per cent per 100,000.

Is it the number of deaths?

Note Number of deaths under the age of 1 year.

Sources Prepared by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs for deaths and infant deaths, based on data from the United Nations Demographic Yearbook system (November 2004) for deaths by cause, based on data from the World Health Organization, WHO Mortality Database (December 2004).

a Excluding the least developed countries.

According to Department of Civil Status statistics for 1988, mortalities among women of child bearing age represent 14.6 per cent of all female mortalities.

Other sources estimated the number of deaths at more than 200.

Deaths from tuberculosis account for 47 per cent of all deaths from contagious diseases and compared with other countries the mortality rate is relatively high 3.4 deaths per 100,000 people.

More alarmingly, such deaths in low income and middle income countries account for about 85 per cent of the total.

Come winter, three times as many people die.

Of the total number of women who have died, more than half died at the age of 65 or older.

General death rate (1)

Infant mortality Marriages

Most of the dead and missing are fishermen.

The death toll was reportedly high on both sides.

In the developing world, the data is much sketchier but the death toll is almost certainly higher.

Total No. of accidents

Indonesia Tsunami Toll Soars Above 800.

In 1992, the infant mortality rate in urban areas was 18.2 per 1,000 live births, while in rural areas it was 17.4.

We don't actually know how many people died.

The mosquito has killed more humans than any other creature in human history.

You see some sort of random distribution perhaps 67 attacks, one person was killed, or 47 attacks where seven people were killed.

The number of deaths of children under 18 exceeded 720.

Crude death rate The ratio of deaths in a population in a given year to the average population for the same year.

A comparison between the WHO mortality study undertaken last year and the early figures from the study concluded in June 2005 shows that the mortality rate in Northern Darfur dropped from 1.5 to 0.8 deaths per 10,000 per day and in Southern Darfur from 2.7 to 0.8 deaths per 10,000 per day the preliminary results for Western Darfur suggest that the mortality rate decreased from 2.9 to 0.7 per 10,000 per day.

The enormous death toll is only part of the burden.

This decrease happened, mostly because of the natural death of these people.

Eighteen people are said to have been killed, including 12 children, and 14 wounded, and several persons to have disappeared or drowned in Lake Tanganyika.

Sources Prepared by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs for deaths and infant deaths, based on data from the United Nations Demographic Yearbook system (November 2004) for deaths by cause, based on data from the World Health Organization, WHO Mortality Database (December 2004).

An important finding is that there is a close relationship between a woman's level of education and the number of maternal mortalities 66 per cent of deaths occur in women without any formal schooling.

(i) Maternal mortality ratio (number of deaths per 100,000 registered live births)

So the goal here is to minimize fatalities.

Ha! American motorists kill that many every two years.

Death toll from Indonesia tsunami rises to 832

Indonesian Vice President Kalla said that the number of deaths might rise to thousands.

The rate of infant mortality was 9,7 in male newborns, and 8,3 for every 1000 female newborns.

Hundreds of people died children as well as adults.

The number of deaths from strong earthquakes and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 420, and there is no report of casualties of Chinese citizens.

According to media reports here, Indonesian Vice President Kalla said the death toll may reach thousands.

433. The state of health of the population can be evaluated by means of indicators commonly used for that purpose, such as the death rate (including infants) and morbidity.

During May and June 1998, the number of deaths in detention decreased in the country as a whole, but remained relatively high in Ngozi (37 deaths in May).

Kalla, the Vice President of Indonesia, said that the total deaths might rise by the thousand.