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World Health Organization Global Health Estimates of 2015 death statistics for the World Health Organization Africa region. The developing world (here modeled by 47 of the 54 countries on the African continent) is particularly prone to infectious and parasitic diseases. In recent years, however, economic development has caused noncommunicable diseases to increase in these populations.
