Interesting

I found this graphic from the Economist sort of surprising. According to the article, there were 58 million deaths in 2005, which, with a world population of 6 billion people, works out to less than 1% of the population dying that year. When you consider all the wars, diseases, accidents, and crime, that seems amazingly low to me (in a good way!)

The point of the article was that "rich world" diseases account for the majority of world deaths, which means they're more global than you might think.

One last note: diabetes, though only representing 1.9% of deaths in 2005, accounted for 11% of U.S. medical expenditures in 2002, which amounted to $92 billion according to the American Diabetes Association.