In its most recent report, the WHO estimates that of the 57 million deaths in 2008, 36 million, or 63 percent, were due to non-communicable disease.
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According to the website pistehors.com, which recorded climbing deaths in the French Alps between 2003 and 2008, the number of deaths seen Thursday is unusual in a single incident.
The government will be nervous of any news from Qinghai's disaster that could give further ammunition to domestic critics of the shoddy construction of schools in Sichuan that was widely blamed for the deaths of thousands of children in the 2008 earthquake.
The minister confirmed that 26% of households in Wales are currently believed to be in fuel poverty but statistics for winter deaths in 2009-10 were lower than those in 2008-09.
The authority also said improvements were made in relation to the building of the tram, with additional changes made after the deaths of Jean and Mickey Hoggart in 2008.
In 2008 the worst single incident led to 6 deaths and 300, 000 infants affected.
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Between coalition attacks on targets with fighters hiding behind insurgents and Taliban and al Qaeda attacks on Afghan civilians, 2008 saw a 60 percent rise in civilian deaths.
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He said tougher measures against drink-driving in Ireland over recent years had seen road deaths fall by 42% between 2008 and 2012.
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Another survey, published by the New England Journal of Medicine in January 2008, said approximately 151, 000 civilians had suffered violent deaths between March 2003 and June 2006.
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The trust has been at the centre of one of the worst scandals in NHS history after neglect and abuse led to hundreds of needless deaths from 2005 to 2008.
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For the 2007-2008 season, there were 12 recorded avalanche deaths for climbers, eight of them in one accident.
In 2008, there were more than 13, 000 cases reported nationally, including 18 deaths, the CDC said.
Minivans appeared the safest based on the IIHS study, with a death rate of just 25 per million registered vehicles in that category compared with an average 48 driver deaths per million registered vehicles in 2006 through 2009 across all model types with the model years 2005 to 2008.
The Francis Inquiry into the hundreds of "needless deaths" at Stafford Hospital between 2005 and 2008 is likely to add to these criticisms when it is published in the coming weeks.
Stafford Hospital was heavily criticised in a report which showed there had been at least 400 more deaths there than would be expected between 2005 and 2008.
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