Is there a website that has this answer? I’d like to see actual numbers - every site I find has projected numbers. (ETA - or just corona virus deaths)
The world mortality rate is something like 7.7 per 1000 people per year. (Mortality rate - Wikipedia)
So if you calculate that out, you get something like:
(7.8 billion / 1000) * 7.7 = 60,060,000 people dying per year.
According to the CDC, the mortality rate for the US is 863.8/100,000 people, or 2,813,503 people per year, which is a little higher than the world average.
I see the POW/MIA flag hanging… well, just about everywhere there’s an American flag. And while I appreciate the sentiment, from where I sit the actual number of living Americans currently believed to be held as Prisoners of War couldn’t possibly be more than a few dozen.
Is my thinking right on this? Did we get all of our POWs back from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria?
*I tried to Google it, but I got information about not only POWs, but also MIAs, and got numbers in the thousands. Problem is, I’m assuming that the vast majority of MIAs have been dead for years if not decades, and it’s simply a matter of their remains never having been recovered.
What I am looking for is real numbers, not projected or estimated numbers.
For instance, this site is for 2017:
And it shows a graph of average deaths per day for each month of 2017. But those are based on actual counts.
And this site: COVID-19
has deaths per day, but only for Corona virus
These might be helpful.
That CDC link I posted has real numbers, including the numbers by different causes of death even.
back of the envelope calculation - 8 billion people, assume equally distributed 0-70, life expectancy of 70, then 1/70th of those 8B die each year, or about 114 million.
The population is not equal in every age group, it’s not that everyone drops dead exactly at 70, etc. But it’s a good rough estimate.
Worldometers is probably not exactly what the OP is looking for, as it obviously uses forecasting to generate it’s numbers. Very interesting, still (and the COVID-19 numbers are accurate and based on actuals).
It has numbers for 2017. I don’t see where it has numbers for 2020, and even the 2018 numbers are very high level.
The US doesn’t have a central registry for births and deaths. Even if someone tried to get an accurate count right now they are at the mercy of what statistics local jurisdictions have made available.