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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2002 Jul;55(2):313–322. doi: 10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00172-1

Table 3.

Excess deaths among the poorest 20% of the world population, 1990 (in thousands)a

Causes of death Actual number of deaths
(1)		 Number of excess deaths
(2)		 Contribution of excess mortality
(3)		 Distribution of excess deaths
(4)
Group-I 8159 7517 92.1% 77.0%
Group-II 4449 1438 32.3% 14.7%
Group-III 1315 805 61.2% 8.3%
All causes 13,923 9760 70.1% 100.0%
a

Note: Causes of death are grouped as in The Global Burden of Disease Study (see Table 2). Excess deaths are computed by applying the age-, sex-, and cause-specific mortality rates estimated for the world’s richest 20% to the estimated distribution by age and sex of the world’s poorest 20%; and subtracting the resulting number of deaths by cause from the actual number of deaths by cause in the world’s poorest 20%. The contribution of excess mortality is the ratio of the number of excess deaths to the actual number of deaths.