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For example, if a population contains 1,000 persons and 28 develop a condition from the time the disease first occurred until two years later, the cumulative incidence is 28 cases per 1,000 persons, i.e. 2.8%.
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 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 ...
The most frequent cause of hospitalization for US children is pneumonia, [16] with an incidence rate of 15.7 per 10,000 children. US children less than two years of age had the highest rate, with 62.2 per 10,000 children. [28] Every year, there are about 124,000 hospitalizations of US children with community-acquired pneumonia. [29]
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
The decline has been going on for nearly 20 years, driven by falling teen pregnancy rates. ... And the birth rate per 1,000 women between ages 15 and 19 fell by 78%. ... “If a teenaged person ...
Person-years of potential life lost in the United States in 2006 [8] Cause of premature death Person-years lost Cancer: 8.6 million Heart disease and strokes: 8.8 million Accidents and other injuries: 5.9 million All other causes: 13.6 million