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Of the reported events, 80% occur in people under 15 years of age, and 20% occur in people older than 15 years of age. [7] Worldwide, choking on a foreign object resulted in 162,000 deaths (2.5 per 100,000) in 2013, compared with 140,000 deaths (2.9 per 100,000) in 1990.
In 2010, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.8 million people died. [2] In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million ...
The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.
In such places, cholera infects between one and four million people every year, per the World Health Organization, and contributes to some 21,000 to 143,000 deaths annually.
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.
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [246] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [247] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
The total biomass (which is the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume) of all adult humans on earth is estimated to be 287 million tons. And yes, spiders could eat all of that. And yes ...
The FWC estimates that the state is home to approximately 1.3m alligators of every size across its 67 counties, which offer around 6.7m acres of suitable wetland habitats for the animals.