Health > Deaths Stats: compare key data on Canada & United States
Definitions
- Deaths from injuries (per 100,000 population): The number of people that die from injuries out of 100,000 people the same age. The number is not an accurate telling of the country's injury rate, but rather how fatal injuries are in each country.
- Deaths of infant boys: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Deaths of infant boys per million people: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Deaths of infant girls: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Deaths of infant girls per million people: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Deaths of infants: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Deaths of infants per million people: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Early death rate (probability of dying beetween 15 and 60 years) > Both sexes: Adult mortality rate (probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population).
- Early death rate (probability of dying beetween 15 and 60 years) > Females: Adult mortality rate (probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population).
- Early death rate (probability of dying beetween 15 and 60 years) > Males: Adult mortality rate (probability of dying between 15 and 60 years per 1000 population).
- Noncommunicable disease mortality rate: The number of people that die from noncommunicable diseases out of 100,000 people the same age. The number is not an accurate telling of the country's noncommunicable disease rate, but rather how fatal noncommunicable diseases are in each country.
- Percent deaths registered: Civil registration coverage of deaths (%).
- Preventable deaths per 100,000 people: Preventable deaths per 100,000 people.
- Rural deaths of infants per million people: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
- Urban deaths of infants: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Rural deaths of infants: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age.
- Urban deaths of infants per million people: An infant death is the death from any cause of a live-born child under one year of age. Figures expressed per million people for the same year.
SOURCES: World Health Organization. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; World Health Organization. Source tables; World Health Organization. Source tables; World Health Organization. Source tables; "Mortality amenable to health care" Nolte, Ellen. "Variations in Amenable Mortality—Trends in 16 High-Income Nations" . Commonwealth Fund . Retrieved 10 February 2012 .
