# Hiw many people die?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 24, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413 "2001-10-24T22:52:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![mancunian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mancunian/32/12244_2.png) [@mancunian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mancunian)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/1 "2001-10-24T22:52:28Z")

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Out of all 5 or so billion people on the planet, how many people are born or die each day???  
Are there sufficient records?

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**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/2 "2001-10-25T03:55:20Z")

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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](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.

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/3 "2001-10-25T11:42:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by mancunian \*  
> **Out of all 5 or so billion people on the planet, how many people are born or die each day???**

All of them.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/4 "2001-10-25T12:04:19Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/5 "2001-10-25T13:47:43Z")

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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]

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**Author:** ![miatachris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@miatachris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miatachris)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/6 "2001-10-25T13:50:37Z")

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I think they’re joking along the lines of Q:“What is the death rate in NYC?” A:“One death per inhabitant.”

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**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiw-many-people-die/89413/7 "2001-10-25T13:50:47Z")

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**DDG** , it’s an answer to the thread title, not the OP.