Question

Suppose that in​ the year of 2008. 583,200 citizens died of a certain disease. Assuming the population of the country is 290 ​million, what was the mortality rate in units of deaths per​ 100,000 people?

Answer 1

583,200 diseased/ 290,000,000 total= 0.002 or 0.2% of citizens
200 people per 100,000 suffer from the disease