Worldmapping: how and where do 57 million people a year die?

Sir Richard Doll Seminar in Public Health and Epidemiology
Oxford, May 18th2010
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Danny DorlingUniversity of Sheffield
Worldmapping:how and where do 57 million people a year die?

Live and let die
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study there are approximately 57 million people dying a year:
57,000,000 a year;
these are 157,000 a day;
or 2 persons dying every second.
This presentation shows,why there is someone dying every half second;
This presentation shows, how the world looks likewhen health, disease, and death are put onto maps;
This presentation shows,how unequal health is distributed globally...

How healthy is the world?Mapping Health
General overview

Public Health Spending
2228 billion PPP US$, $39,000 per death per year

Private Health Spending
1847 billion PPP US$, $4 for every $5 spent by the state

Physicians Working
9.56 million, one physician for every 6 deaths a year

Early Neonatal Mortality
3.01 million, one within 7 days of birth for every 3 physicians

HIV/AIDS Prevalence
29.22 million, one in every 200 people in the world

Malaria Cases
71.9 million, 7.5 cases per physician in the world

What are they all dying from?Mapping Causes of Death
Grouped in three broad groups of causes
Note: For technical reasons the following slides
have been modified from their original version.
The original presentation with full screen maps can be downloaded from our website at
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Preventable Deaths
people who died from most preventable (communicable infections, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions) in one year

Cause of Death:Often Preventable Deaths
18,475,000 a year; 51,000 a day; one every 2 seconds...

Causes of Death(continued)
Tuberculosis
Infectious and Parasitic Disease
STDs Excluding HIV
180,000 a year; 493 a day; one every 3 minutes...
HIV/AIDS

Chlamydia
Syphilis
Diarrhoea
1,871,000 a year; 5126 a day; one every 17 seconds...
Gonorrhoea
959 a year; 3 a day; one every 9 hours...

Whooping Cough
Vaccine Preventable Deaths
Diphtheria
5,452 a year; 15 a day; one every 1½ hours...
Tetanus
214,000 a year; 586 a day; one every 2½ minutes...

Measles
607,000 a year; 1,663 a day; one every 52 seconds...
Polio
831 a year; 2 a day; one every 10½ hours...
Hepatitus B
Meningitis

Malaria
Hepatitus C
Sleeping sickness
Local Tropical Diseases

Schistosomiasis
Chagas Disease
Elephantiasis
417 a year; one every 21 hours...
Leishmaniasis

Dengue
Leprosy
Intestinal Worm Infection
Japanese Encephalitis

Whipworm Infection
3,019 a year; 8 a day; one every 3 hours...
Roundworm Infection
All Respiratory Infection Deaths
Hookworm Disease
2,941 a year; 8 a day; one every 3 hours...

Nose and Throat Infection
Pneumonia
Deaths of Women from Pregnancy
510,000 a year; 1397 a day; one every minute...
Ear Infection

Low Birth Weight Related
Deaths of Babies from Childbirth
All Nutritional Deficiences Deaths
Birth Injury Related

Vitamin A Deficiency
Deaths from Starvation
Iodine Deficiency
Iron Deficiency Anaemia

All Cancer Deaths
Non-Communicable Illnesses
33,630,000 a year; 92,137 a day; one every second...
Throat Cancer
Mouth Cancer
318,000 a year; 871 a day; one every 99 seconds...

Bowel Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Pancreas Cancer
Liver Cancer

Skin Cancer
Lung Cancer
Cancer of the Cervix
Breast Cancer

Ovary Cancer
Cancer of the Uterus
Bladder Cancer
Prostate Cancer

Leukaemia
Lymphoma
Diabetes
Other Tumour Deaths

Brain Disorder
Endocrine and other disorders
Manic-depression
733 a year; 2 a day; one every 12 hours...
Depression Related

Epilepsy
Schizophrenia
Dementias
Alcohol Use Disorders

Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson Disease
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
56 a year; one every 6½ days...
Drug Use Disorders

Glaucoma
102 a year; one every 86 days...
Eye and Ear Disease
Rheumatic Heart Disease
All Cardiovascular Disease Deaths

Heart Attack
Stroke
Inflammatory Heart Disease
Hypertensive Heart Disease

Chronic Bronchitis
Respiratory Disease
Digestive Tract Diseases
Asthma

Cirrhosis Of The Liver
Peptic Ulcer Disease
Genitourinary Tract Diseases
Appendicitis

Deaths from enlarged Prostate
Kidney Disease
All Musculoskeletal Disease Deaths
Skin Disease

Osteoarthritis
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Oral Conditions
Birth Defects

All Accidental Deaths
All Injury Deaths
Accidental Poisoning
Road Traffic Accident

Deaths from Fires
Deaths from Falls
Other Accidental Injury Deaths
Deaths from Drowning

Suicide
All Non-accidental Deaths
War
Murder

War Deaths
people who died from war in one year

When are they all dying?Mapping the Age of Death
Sorted from oldest to youngest people

Age of Death: 100+
92,585 deaths; 254 per day; one every 341 seconds...

Age of Death: 95-99
484,416 deaths; 1,327 per day; one every 65 seconds...

Age of Death: 90-94
1,563,557 deaths; 4,284 per day; one every 20 seconds...

Age of Death: 85-89

Age of Death: 80-84

Age of Death: 75-79

Age of Death: 70-74

Age of Death: 65-69

Age of Death: 60-64

Age of Death: 55-59

Age of Death: 50-54

Age of Death: 45-49

Age of Death: 40-44

Age of Death: 35-39

Age of Death: 30-34

Age of Death: 25-29

Age of Death: 20-24

Age of Death: 15-19

Age of Death: 10-14

Age of Death: 5-9

Age of Death: 1-4
2,556,272 deaths; 7004 per day; one every 12 seconds...

Age of Death: Infants (aged under 1)

From Map to Cartogram
Infant Mortality

World maps by the Worldmapper team
Slides and animations by Benjamin Hennig
Slides available on http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations/
For a definition of all the causes and the data see www.worldmapper.org
New estimates on causes of death are due to be released by the end of 2010 in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study
http://www.globalburden.org
Credits

World maps by the Worldmapper team
Slides and animations by Benjamin Hennig
Slides available on http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/presentations/
Infant mortality in affluent countries at the end of the nineteenth century rose as charitable giving rose. Mortality then fell as public anger at social injustice was converted into political change. Political change which then used medical knowledge.
References
Dorling, D. (2007). Worldmapper: The human anatomy of a small planet. PLoS Medicine 4(1), 13-18.
Dorling, D. and Barford, A. (2007). Shaping the world to illustrate inequalities in health. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 85(11), 821-900.
Dorling, D. and Barford, A. (2007). The shape of global causes of death. International Journal of Health Geographies, 6(48).
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