The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overall mortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.

BBC: Red meat increases death, cancer and heart risk, says study

Women also have a higher overall mortality rate than men, partly because of bias and neglect over a lifetime, according to recent research, as well as mortality during childbirth.

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If there's a silver lining to Stuckler's findings, it's that a drop in traffic deaths appears to have canceled out the impact of the added suicides on the overall mortality rate of the countries.

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But between 2001 and 2011 the overall cancer mortality rate fell 15% for men and 7% for women.

BBC: Cancer 'changes outlook on life'

Giant clinical trials in several African countries in the '90s found the nets reduced malaria cases by 60% and overall child mortality by nearly 20%, better than anyone had expected.

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The Global Post apparently believes that even though the number of alcohol poisonings is sharply lower than it was earlier in the decade, the overall level of mortality associated with alcohol is completely unchanged.

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One large study of statins in people aged 70-82 years old found that illness and deaths from heart disease fell in those treated with pravastatin but overall there was no difference in mortality as rates of cancer illness and death increased.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Prevention 'may not help elderly'

While overall there is a significant decline in cancer mortality, the obesity epidemic is continuing to push the cancer mortality rate upward.

CNN: More lives being saved: Cancer death rates drop 20%

That is the TFR only goes up if women really are having more children on average, not if there are simply more children being born overall, and life expectancy goes up only if there are declines in age-specific mortality.

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