Etiket: mortality
UNICEF: Global child mortality continues to decline to all-time low
In 2022, 4.9 million children worldwide died before their fifth birthday – half of them newborns. That is the lowest death rate ever recorded for the youngest children since researchers…
UNICEF: Global child mortality continues to decline
The number of children worldwide dying before their fifth birthday continues to decline, according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. In 2022, 4.9 million children under the age of…
Winter mortality among bees in Flanders is increasing
The honey bee in Flanders is not doing well. This winter, beekeepers lost an average of 27 percent of their bee colonies, a worsening compared to last year, when there…
Excess mortality was not caused by the corona shot
Those who were vaccinated against corona had a lower risk of dying from Covid-19 in 2022 than people without vaccination. Each repeat injection reduced the risk. RIVM and CBS looked…
Also excess mortality last quarter, cause not clear | Domestic
More people are still dying in the Netherlands than in the years before the corona pandemic. Statistics Netherlands calculates that in the third quarter of this year about 1,800 more…
Maternal mortality is still an everyday reality in Senegal | column Saskia Houttuin
At the beginning of June, when the first heat wave of the summer was just beginning to appear in the Netherlands, I gave birth to our second daughter in Amsterdam.…
Harrison Ford (80) Indiana Jones one more time: ‘I wanted to face my own mortality’
The hat and the whip still look great on him at 80, but even Indiana Jones doesn’t live forever. During the Cannes Film Festival, Harrison Ford said an emotional goodbye…
More people died than expected in March, just no excess mortality | Interior
In March, 1300 more people died than expected, Statistics Netherlands reports. There was just no excess mortality that month. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) only speaks of excess mortality…
Measuring mortality: This is how Depeche Mode’s new album MEMENTO MORI sounds – song by song
Who wrote which piece? How does Martin Gore shape his lead vocals song? What sounds and moods characterize the album? What are the lyrics about? And is it a coincidence…
CBS: no more excess mortality in the last two weeks of January
There was no excess mortality in the Netherlands in the last two weeks of January, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports on the basis of provisional figures. It is…