Sentences with phrase «annual death toll»

The annual death toll from global tobacco use is predicted to rise to 8 million by 2030.

Coal's annual death toll is formidable in other countries as well.

(The Economist, for example, recently reported the annual death toll due to air pollution to be something like 200,000.)

estimates an annual death toll of 50,000 due to the inevitable sulphuric precipitation.

Norovirus, which is incorrectly called the «stomach flu,» isn't a virus that most people would associate with death (although you may prefer to be dead if you catch it), but its annual death toll is estimated to be 200,000, mostly due to dehydration in developing areas that lack clean water.

But the more troubling finding, the researchers say, is that the annual death toll would rise to 6.6 million by 2050 without new controls.

The annual death toll from outdoor air pollution could double to 6.6 million globally by 2050 without new antipollution measures, a new study suggests.

In Virginia, where the annual death toll for dolphins hovered below 80 for the past decade, the surge has reached 286 deaths.

Compare this with the average annual death toll of 36,000 Americans from ordinary influenza.

In defending his decision to let J'Ouvert proceed next year despite the annual death toll, Mayor de Blasio accidentally put his finger on the core problem.

The annual death toll far exceeds the total number of U.S. military killed in more than a decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Not exact matches

At least 717 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia's civil defence directorate said, as the death toll continued to rise.

The deaths of three thousand people and injuries to a quarter of a million are a staggering annual toll to pay for mobility.»

The death toll has surpassed 500, significantly higher than the average annual fatalities of about 60.

The Capitol's news broadcasts recapping the day's victories and death toll feature the same music as and similar graphics to the daily reports on the annual Hunger Games, in which poor and oppressed citizens of the outlying districts would fight to death for the entertainment of the wealthy and powerful of the Capitol.

The world's most prestigious medical science journal, The Lancet, publised a paper puting numbers to the annual toll of deaths and serious illnesses in Europe due to the air pollutants from burning coal to generate electricity.

These exceed the estimated annual toll of 141,000 deaths and 5.4 million lost DALYs that the World Health Organization attributes to global warming.