The enormous death toll is only part of the burden.

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

From these they calculate excess deaths above a death rate interpolated between pre and post Leap death rates.

The number of deaths of children under 18 exceeded 720.

In an update, Zeinobia stated that the death toll has increased to 15.

Reduction of child mortality is the fourth of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.

Table 2.A Number of countries or areas that reported selected mortality statistics, 1995 2003

The death toll is expected to rise, since 96 are in a critical condition.

Famine deaths and the reduction in number of births caused the population of China to drop in 1960 and 1961.

The Haitian Ministry of Public Health reports that the number of deaths is approaching 2,000, with the number of infections exceeding 80,000.

Some officials have reverted to alarmist language on the number of fatalities attributed to Chernobyl.

Therefore, the rate of 11 per thousand should be taken with caution.

The death toll figure of 242,419 came from the Chinese Seismological Service in 1988, while some sources have estimated the death toll to be at 650,000.

Maternal and child health, including the reduction of mortality, was a high priority.

The death toll reached a peak of 7,000 in the week of 17 September.

There are a number of other estimates of total fatalities, however, which range from 241,000 to 900,000.

Or look at the strides made against malaria over the past decade, the number of cases has been reduced by 17 , and the number of deaths has dropped by 26 .

Veterans groups have used the Freedom of Information Act to discover the total number of injured 15 times the number of fatalities.

Why? Well there's only a few diseases that account for the vast majority of those deaths diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria.

Such vehicles would be programmed to avoid crashes, leading to fewer deaths and injuries and less property damage.

The number of deaths is projected to increase due to higher smoking rates and an aging population in many countries.

At the end of 2004 and in early 2005, repeated Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip caused the number of Palestinian fatalities to rise.

By focusing on measures to prevent global warming, the advanced countries might help to prevent many people from dying.

Total Romanian deaths from 1914 to 1918, military and civilian, within contemporary borders, were estimated at 748,000.

The practice can be dangerous even if performed with care and has resulted in a significant number of accidental deaths.

In order to estimate the number of these premature deaths, Kuwait relies on the results of a monitoring and assessment study on human health risks.

The number of deaths initially reported by the Chinese government was 655,000, but this number has since been stated to be around 240,000 to 255,000.

From 1990 to the peak year, around 2004, annual malaria deaths rose from roughly 800,000 to 1.6 million.

Clinicians stopped using the drugs, but not before causing a large number of unnecessary deaths.

Between 1990 and 2010 the number of deaths from COPD decreased slightly from 3.1 million to 2.9 million and became the fourth leading cause of death.

The number of deaths from maternal and neonatal tetanus declined from 248,000 in 1997 to 180,000 in 2002.

In that war, among United States territories, Puerto Rico had ranked second (after the Hawaiian Islands) in terms of deaths and third in terms of other casualties.

17 fatalities.

4 fatalities.

The legalization of abortion on request in South Africa in 1998 saw abortion related deaths drop by 91 .

No one knows how many dead or injured. The aftershock is reverberating.

But since there are very few other diseases that kill people, we can really attribute that mortality to HIV.

According to Kuwait, the results of the risk assessment show that the number of deaths due to exposure to particulate matter from the oil well fires range between 0 and 116.

What about Africa's population? The population isn't out of proportion to its area, but Africa leads the world in deaths from often preventable causes malnutrition, simple infections and birth complications.

In 2013, 6.3 million children under five died, down from 6.9 million in 2010, 8.2 million in 2005, and 12.7 million in 1990.

Mortality Rates and Causes of Death

If left unchecked, the number of cervical cancer deaths is set to rise to 430,000 annually by 2030.

But warming will also decrease other extremes, for example, leading to fewer deaths from cold and less water scarcity.

Death caused by accidents, suicide, etc., has declined (27.6 per 100,000 population in 1990, 35.8 in 1993, 13.4 in 1999).

The number of deaths was 9.5 per 1,000 inhabitants (E.U. 25 9.9), while in 1980 it was 9.1.