UNSW Embryology

Statistics - World Death

© Dr Mark Hill (2006)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

These graphs and data are extracted from WHO The World Health Report 1998. They indicate current health conditions and global trends in health.

Note how over the last 12 years perinatal and maternal causes of death have significantly decreased in developed countries, while in developing countries this form of death is not only high, but has remained unchanged. In the developing world death is mostly due to infectious diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea, combined with malnutrition.

Page Links: Introduction | Perinatal and Maternal Death | Death According to Development | WWW Links

Other Pages: World Statistics | Global Population Distribution | WHO WWW Links

Global Death - Perinatal and Maternal

The table below shows the difference between developed and developing countries over time in terms of percentages of death in mothers and infants in the world. Note that developed countries have improved substantially even since 1985, while developing countries have remained unchanged.

Year :

1985

1990

1997

Developed World

5%

4%

1%

Developing World

10%

9%

10%

See also other pages: Age Structure of Deaths | Leading causes of Global Deaths | Infant Health.

Death According to Development (1985-1997)

Published by WHO, 11 May 1998 ISBN 92 4 156189 0.
All WHO Press Releases, Fact Sheets and Features can be obtained on Internet on the WHO home page http://www.who.ch/

This material is reproduced for computers without internet access and is for educational purposes only.

WWW Links

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Where to Next?

You should look at normal development. Development Notes

Alternatively, go on to look at Systematic Development of organs and tissues.

Quick Links

Finally

For those wanting to see dynamic processes of development (and have a reasonably quick connection) then the Movies pages are good for watching changes occur.

Other Embryos

The study of human development has relied extensively on studying the process in other model animals. For those wanting to see the process of development in other species then the other embryos pages are a good start.

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