Death – Worldmapper

Covid-19/Coronavirus case mortality (rates)

Worldmapper — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:30:00 +0000

Since 31 December 2019, when the WHO was informed about the first cases in Wuhan, China, almost 85 million people are confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 (Coronavirus) from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and more than 1.8 million have died (all figures last updated 5 January 2021). The highest case mortality rates (reported deaths per number of confirmed cases) are found in Yemen with 29.1%, followed by Mexico (8.8%) and Montserrat (7.7%). China now has a reported case mortality rate of 5%, while the United States reported a mortality of 1.7%. Of the countries with many reported cases, India, Brazil and France have relatively low reported case mortality rates (1.4%, 2.6% and 2.5% deaths of all reported cases). All these statistics must be treated with caution: Data availability and quality play an important part in these highly variable statistics, with the number of unreported cases being believed to be quite considerable in some countries. Read more on the chronology of the pandemic in our blog.

Covid-19/Coronavirus mortality (rates)

Worldmapper — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:00:48 +0000

Since 31 December 2019, when the WHO was informed about the first cases in Wuhan, China, almost 85 million people are confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 (Coronavirus) from the SARS-CoV-2 virus and more than 1.8 million have died (all figures last updated 5 January 2021). The highest mortality rates (reported deaths per 100,000 people) are found in San Marino with 174, followed by Belgium (168), Slovenia (126), Bosnia and Herzegovina (123) and Italy (120). 14 countries currently have a mortality rate of 100 or above, including Spain (108), the United Kingdom (105) and the United States of America (100). All these statistics must be treated with caution: Data availability and quality play an important part in these highly variable statistics, with the number of unreported cases being believed to be quite considerable in some countries. Read more on the chronology of the pandemic in our blog.

Heatwaves 2001-2017

tina-gotthardt — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:34:01 +0000

This map shows the proportion of heatwave disasters between 2001 and 2017, that happened there.

Definition:
A heatwave is described as a period of abnormally hot and/or unusually humid weather. Typically a heat wave lasts two or more days. The exact temperature criteria for what constitutes a heat wave vary by location.
For a disaster to included at least one of the following criteria must be fulfilled:
Ten (10) or more people reported killed
Hundred (100) or more people reported affected
Declaration of a state of emergency
Call for international assistance

Note: In their 2018 review of ‘Heatwave and health impact research’ Campbell et al. conclude that “When examining the location of heatwave and health impact research worldwide, studies were concentrated on mid-latitude, high-income countries of low- to medium-population density. Regions projected to experience the most extreme heatwaves in the future were not represented. Furthermore, the majority of studies examined mortality as a key indicator of population-wide impact, rather than the more sensitive indicator of morbidity.”

Data sources
This map uses data by EM-DAT: The Emergency Events Database (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

All modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Avalanches/Landslides Deaths 2000-2017

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:41:09 +0000

Most deaths from avalanches or landslides were recorded in China (3600), followed by Philippines (>1800), Indonesia (>1400), Sierra Leone (>1100)and Nepal (>1000). Most of the recorded avalanches/landslide happened in China (50), followed by Indonesia (44), India (20), Afghanistan (16) and Nepal (14). Avalanches are the rapid downslope movement of snow and ice in steep mountain areas. The influence of gravity on the accumulated weight of newly fallen uncompacted snow or on thawing older snow leads to avalanches which may be triggered in a variety of ways including earthquakes. Avalanches are most common during winter or spring but glacier movements may cause ice avalanches during summer. A landslide is a sudden collapse of a large mass of hillside. Landslides are downward and outward movement of slope materials such as rock debris and earth, under the influence of gravity. Landslides may be set off by an earthquake, by saturation with heavy rain, or by crashing waves. (Quora)

Epidemics Deaths 2001-2017

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 06 Nov 2018 23:18:05 +0000

The Cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010/2011 (following a massive earthquake) killed with almost 7000 reported deaths the highest number of people in a single outbreak, followed by the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014. The overall highest number of deaths are reported in Burkina Faso. Overall most of the deaths were caused by Cholera outbreaks, a bacterial infection, that benefits from bad sanitation facilities. Most of the reported epidemics happened in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Democratic Republic of Congo is leading that list, followed by Nigeria, Niger, Uganda and Sudan. More than 67.000 out of the total 86.000 victims of epidemics were from Africa. The only non African country among the Top 10 is India, where the epidemics are mostly Japanese Encephalitis and Cholera.

Tsunami Deaths 2001-2017

tina-gotthardt — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 21:45:14 +0000

A tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long length and generated by a violent, impulsive undersea disturbance or activity near the coast or in the ocean. When the sea floor is suddenly raised or dropped by an earthquake, big tsunami waves can be formed. The tsunami in the recorded time period with the highest death toll happened in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 (more than 230.000 people died). On December 26, 2004, at 7:58 am local time an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 approximately 160 km west of the shores of Sumatra (Indonesia) and 30 km below the sea surface triggered tsunamis in the Indian Ocean. They hit the coasts of countries East and West of the epicenter, among them Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives, the Seychelles, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh and reaching as far as Somalia and Tanzania on the African coastline over 6000 km away. According to recent studies an increased occurrence of such events due to climate change and global warming is highly likely. The coastal populations of the affected countries were hit the hardest, suffering deaths, injuries, displacement and the destruction of their livelihoods. Indonesia was affected most, with an estimated number of 170,000 casualties and approximately 500,000 displaced people. There are very particular demographic patterns to the deaths: According to an Oxfam report, four times more women were killed than men, as they were waiting on beaches for fishermen to return, or at home looking after their children at the time the tsunami hat. But among the victims were also people from abroad, though they count for a small share of the hundreds of thousands who died: a number of 2,307 is reported to have died or gone missing, most of them tourist who went to South-East Asia for their Christmas holidays. The largest share of citizens from abroad reported dead were from Western Europe. Sweden alone lost 554 citizens in the disaster (counting for 58.10 deaths per one million inhabitants, the largest share of a foreign country compared to their population), while Germany had 539 identified victims (6.75 deaths per million inhabitants).

Neonatal Deaths

tina-gotthardt — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:00:09 +0000

The highest absolute number of babies die in their first month after birth in India, followed by Nigeria, Pakistan and the DR Congo. Turkey is the first European country on place 43, the other countries are all from Sub-Saharan Africa, South and South-East Asia. The WHO defines neonatal death as a death during the first 28 days of life (0-27 days). It is also target 3.1 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1000 live births. According to the WHO, The first 28 days of life – the neonatal period – represent the most vulnerable time for a child’s survival. In 2016, 2.6 million deaths, or roughly 46% of all under-five deaths, occur during this period. This translates to 7000 newborn deaths every day. The majority of the neonatal deaths are concentrated in the first day and week, with about 1 million dying on the first day and close to one million dying within the next six days. Reducing neonatal mortality is increasingly important not only because the proportions of under-five deaths that occur during the neonatal period is increasing as under-five mortality declines but also because the health interventions needed to address the major causes of neonatal deaths generally differ from those needed to address other under-five deaths. On current trends, more than 60 countries will miss the SDG target of reducing neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 deaths per 1000 live births by 2030. About half of them will not reach the target by 2050. These countries carry about 80 per cent of the burden of neonatal deaths in 2016.

Infant Deaths 2020

tina-gotthardt — Fri, 11 May 2018 06:50:24 +0000

This map shows the proportion of all infants (1 year and younger) who died in 2015.

Data sources
This map uses data by Global Burden of Disease (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.