Tag: death rate
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Why is the UK’s Child Mortality Rate so High?
The United Kingdom has the highest child mortality rate in Western Europe except for Malta. The UK’s child mortality rate currently stands t 6.5 per thousand live births. This has been the case for many years now and a recent research study into the causes has found that deprivation is the key factor which correlates…
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The coronavirus class-divide
Those in working class jobs are about two to three times more likely to die of covid-19 related deaths compared to those in middle class jobs. The Office for National statistics allows you to look at the latest figures for covid-19 infections and covid-19 related deaths, and one of the aspects of the death rate…
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Explaining the long term decrease in the death rate
Explaining the long term decrease in the death rate What are the Trends? The death rate has halved in the last century, declining from 19/1000 to 10/1000 today. In the first part of the century,most of this decrease was due to fewer children dying of infectious diseases, later on in the century, the continued decline…
