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The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.
Floods hit the Indian state of Uttarakhand, causing an avalanche that killed 83 people and left 121 others missing. [4] Cyclone Tauktae affected southern India, killing 169 people. [5] Shortly after, Cyclone Yaas killed a further 20 people. [6] Floods from July to August affected the state of Maharashtra, killing 251 people and leaving many ...
Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [4] The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan" (meaning 'land') in both respective native languages and most other languages.
Lindsey Robert Rose: New South Wales serial and contract killer who murdered five people between 1984 and 1994; sentenced to life imprisonment. [ 51 ] 'Snowy' Rowles : committed the " Murchison Murders"; stockman who murdered three people using a method from a then-unpublished book of author Arthur Upfield , and was caught after forgetting to ...
Tornado formed shortly before midnight and moved through villages south of Clark Air Base. 8 people died at Macabebe and 4 died at Masantol. [108] Malita tornado: 3 June 1989: Malita, Davao del Sur, Philippines: 1: 11 fatalities, 4+ injuries: Tornado uprooted trees and crops along its path. 150 homes and 2 bridges were destroyed.
Using WHO statistics, in 2012 the number of people living with HIV was growing at a faster rate (1.98%) than worldwide human population growth (1.1% annual), [2] and the cumulative number of people with HIV is growing at roughly three times faster (3.22%). The costs of treatment is significantly increasing burden on healthcare systems when ...
More than 45 million people were affected by the floods, [1] including 16 million children. [2] [3] About 2,000 people, on average, had died due to flooding in South Asia each year during the previous two decades, according to The New York Times ' reading of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (EM-DAT) disaster database. [4]