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Here is what you need to know about the rate, causes, and prevention of mortality during childbirth. When a person dies from ...

The hazard rate refers to the rate of death for an item of a given age ... units at the beginning of the interval. If we were to calculate a person's chances of dying at a certain age, we would ...

Some much-needed good news for U.S. citizens: Between the first quarters of 2021 and 2023, the national age-adjusted death rate fell by 17.7%, according to the latest ValuePenguin study. Our study ...

In Central Europe, for example, the mortality rate for children fell from roughly 50 percent in 1750 to 0.3 percent in 2020. You will not find more unambiguous evidence of human progress.

used a different method than the CDC’s to calculate the maternal mortality rate, concluding that it was 10.4 deaths per 100,000 births from 2018 to 2021, rather than the higher figures the ...