Out of all 5 or so billion people on the planet, how many people are born or die each day???
Are there sufficient records?
According to the World Health Organization, 53,929,000 people died in 1998, which works out to 147,750 per day.
That’s a lot more than there were when Blue Oyster Cult sang “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”
Here’s a good page with all of the WHO death statistics on it:
http://www-nt.who.int/whosis/statistics/burden_whr/mortality.pdf
I bet if you poke around there you’ll find the birth statistics, too.
All of them.
I read a statistic around ~250,000. But I don’t remember where.
It’s depressing that we’re still skyrocketing in population with over a hundred thousand deaths.
Stop breeding, people. I beg you.
I’m sorry, I’ve read it four times now, and I still don’t get it. “All of them”? What?
[sub]bring coffee[/sub]
I think they’re joking along the lines of Q:“What is the death rate in NYC?” A:“One death per inhabitant.”
DDG, it’s an answer to the thread title, not the OP.