# Global Deaths

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-deaths/122828
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 7, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-deaths/122828 "2002-08-07T19:38:57Z")
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### Author: ![Bob\_Gaughan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ec9cab/32.png) [@Bob\_Gaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Gaughan)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-deaths/122828/1 "2002-08-07T19:38:57Z")

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It looks like in 2001 there is approximately 6.15 Billion people in the world. Growth rate is about 1.25% a year.

How many people die in a year? Absolute number or percentage?

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### Author: ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/global-deaths/122828/2 "2002-08-07T20:18:10Z")

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Let me be the first to cite the following news story:[World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent](http://www.theonion.com/onion3102/deathrate.html)

The CIA estimates that for 2001, the world death rate was 8.93 deaths/1,000 population. The CIA has statistics broken down by country here: [http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/death\_rate.html](http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/death_rate.html)