How many people die per year?

Drez

Roughly and globally, and reason doesn't matter - "ebola" and "accidentally fell off a cliff while trying to photograph one's family" are equal. Doesn't have to be precise or anything, just looking for a general statistic. I'm not even sure where I could look something like a global death census up. Is there any such thing?

If not, can someone guesstimate for me?

Quirk

i read somewhere that someone dies every second or so, but i can't do the maths to turn that into people a year.

and something like 1.2 people are born for every 1 who dies apparently

DirtyDirtyVagrant

If one person died every second for a year...31,536,000. (I think that's right)

Seems a bit low, honestly.

Feral

CIA World Fact Book sez:

Population:
6,525,170,264 (July 2006 est.)
...
Population growth rate:
1.14% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
20.05 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
8.67 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html#People

Paul_IQ164

Well logically, if there's 6,000,000,000 people in the world now, and in a hundred years we'll all be dead (aside from a few hangers-on who'll be more than outmatched by the people who'll be born and die in that timeframe), so there'll have to be at least an average of 60,000,000 deaths a year, which is somewhere around 160,000 a day or two per second. Obviously this is a very rough guess and an underestimate, but unless my maths has gone horribly wrong somewhere, it must be about right.

Edit: hey, I was not far wrong!