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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. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million ...
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
List of people executed in Mexico; List of people executed in Romania; List of hazing deaths in the United States; List of horse accidents (deaths and serious injuries) List of inventors killed by their own inventions; Lists of murders. Murdered sex workers in the United Kingdom; List of murdered musicians. List of murdered hip hop musicians ...
[21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...
Death during consensual sex; List of entertainers who died during a performance; List of solved missing person cases: post-2000; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present; List of fatal dog attacks; List of drowning ...
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
List of the deadliest tropical cyclones; List of deadliest Pacific hurricanes; List of epidemics; List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths; List of natural disasters by death toll; List of avalanches by death toll; List of deadliest floods; List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll; List of volcanic eruptions by death toll
[There were no deaths due to deterministic effects (i.e., people receiving a high dose of radiation, rapidly becoming ill, and dying); the 100–240 figure is an estimate of the number of people who died later in life due to cancer caused by radiation from the accident [30]]. 95–4,000+ [31] [32] 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster.