About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.

About 153,000 people will die on your birthday.

Statisticians have calculated the “mortality rate” for the world to be roughly .883 percent. This means that 1 out of every 113 people in the world died last year.

Based on this rate, here is an estimate of the incidence of death among people now living in the world:

1.78 deaths per second
107 deaths per minute
6,390 deaths per hour
153,000 deaths per day
56.0 million deaths per year
3.9 billion deaths per average lifetime (70 years)

Of course, these numbers are based on inductive generalization and therefore are not infallible.

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