• Question: Approximately how many people die from some disease out of 100 people?

    Asked by Nora900 to Sian, Max, Lizzie, Francis on 8 Mar 2018.
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      Lizzie Wright answered on 8 Mar 2018:

      Wow Nora, thats a tough question! It completely depends on the disease – some diseases cause a lot of deaths and others don’t.

      I found a great article on the Guardian newspaper website or what the causes of death for people in the UK were in 2011. It shows that diseases caused over 94% of deaths (94 in every 100 people) and the rest are deaths from accidents.

      These diseases occur at all different stages in life and for different reasons and a lot of these can be down to old age.

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