How Many People Die in a One Day?

The ‘mortality rate’ for the world, as per statisticians, is roughly around .883 percent. What it implies is that 1 or every 113 approximately people die every year.
  • It has been estimated that around 151,600 people die every day, give or take a few. Therefore, with this statistics, the number of deaths occurring every year comes out to be at 55.3 million. If you are wondering how many people die every minute, then you must know that the number is 105. So, since the time you started reading this post, tens, if not hundreds, have left the world.

  • With such drastic numbers, one question that might be puzzling many of you arises that what are the most common reasons behind deaths. As per a report by World Health Organization (WHO), about 56.4 million people died in 2015 globally, where more than half of those were from 10 common reasons.

The most common cause of death was found to be heart diseases that claimed around 15 million lives. The second most common cause of death was determined to be chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases that killed 3.2 million people in one year.


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