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- <text id=92TT1033>
- <title>
- May 11, 1992: Latest WHO Statistics
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 11, 1992 L.A.:"Can We All Get Along?"
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 16
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Latest World Health Organization Statistics
- </hdr><body>
- <p> LONGEVITY. Japanese live longest (women, 82.5 years; men,
- 76.1). Average lifespan in Africa: 52.6.
- </p>
- <p> OVERALL MORTALITY. Leading cause of death: heart attacks
- and strokes (25% of all deaths). Highest auto death rate:
- Suriname (33.5 deaths per 100,000 people). Lowest: Malta (1.6
- per 100,000).
- </p>
- <p> INFANT MORTALITY. Number of children who die before age 5:
- 12.9 million. Percentage of those deaths caused by malaria: 20%
- to 30%.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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