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The effects of malnutrition include increased susceptibility to infection, [16] musculature wasting, skeletal deformities and neurologic development delays. [17] According to the World Health Organization, malnutrition is named as the biggest contributor to child mortality [18] with 36 million deaths in 2005 related to malnutrition. [19]
Malnutrition rates in Iraq had risen from 19% before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28% four years later. [13] By 2010, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, only 8% were malnourished.
In 2010 protein-energy malnutrition resulted in 600,000 deaths down from 883,000 deaths in 1990. [192] Other nutritional deficiencies, which include iodine deficiency and iron deficiency anemia, result in another 84,000 deaths. [192] In 2010 malnutrition caused about 1.5 million deaths in women and children. [193]
The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day. [1] [2] [3] The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an ...
Insufficient food intake and poor eating habits are common among older people. Most of California’s deaths from malnutrition last year occurred in people 85 and up.
[108] [109] Food security rates can be predicated by the national unemployment rate because food insecurity is measured by both access to food and ability to afford it. [108] During economic downturns in the past several centuries, food insecurity and food shortages rise not only during the year of the downturn, but for several years after. [110]
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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.