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African American life expectancy at birth is persistently five to seven years lower than European Americans. [17] By 2018 that difference had shrunk to 3.6 years. [18] As of 2020, Hispanics had a life expectancy at birth of 78.8 years, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 77.6 years and non-Hispanic blacks at 71.8 Years. [19]
For example, Ukrainians accounted for 10% of the total population of Wrocław before the war [76] and this figure had increased to 23% by April 2022. [75] Poland has taken in almost 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. The migration has resulted in a 50% rise in the population of Rzeszów, the largest city in south-eastern Poland.
As of December 2022, more than 4,000 people were prosecuted under "fake news" laws in connection with the war in Ukraine. [25] Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko was sentenced to six years in prison for publishing information about the Mariupol theatre airstrike. [26] At least 1,000 Russian journalists have fled Russia since February 2022. [27]
The "Day of Seven Billion" was targeted by the United States Census Bureau to be in March 2012, [15] while the Population Division of the United Nations suggested 31 October 2011, [16] and the latter date was officially designated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as the approximate day on which the world's population reached seven ...
Obesity in Canada varies by ethnicity; people of Aboriginal origin have a significantly higher rate of obesity (37.6%) than the national average. [36] In children obesity has substantially increased between 1989 and 2004 with rates in boys increasing from 2% to 10% and rates among girls increasing from 2% to 9%. [37]
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 ...
Rather than placing the burden on their guarantors, many have been attempting to take responsibility for their unpaid loans and outstanding debts through life insurance payouts. [ 10 ] In fiscal year 2005, 17 consumer loan firms received a combined 4.3 billion yen in suicide policy payouts on 4,908 borrowers – or some 15% of the 32,552 ...
Legionnaires' disease has a CFR of about 15%. [20]: 665 Left untreated, bubonic plague will have a CFR of up to 60%. [21]: 57 With antibiotic treatment, the CFR for bubonic plague is 17%, pneumonic 29% and septicaemic 45%. [22] [23] Active tuberculosis, the infection with the highest mortality rate, has a CFR of 43% in the absence of HIV. [24] [25]