Holmes desires that the following claim be examined:
Claim #1 - "The leading cause of death for women worldwide is due to pregnancy and childbirth."
According to the data I was able to retrieve from the Disease Control Priorities Project of the World Bank, there is a table 3b.9 in Excel titled Death by Cause, Sex, and Age in the World 2001 available at:
dcp2.org - SARMs, Supplements And Kratom
According to the data for females ages 15-29 in deaths by thousands:
Infectuous and parasitic diseases: 630k
Maternal conditions: 257k
Noncommunicible disease: 299k
Injuries: 359k
According to the data for females ages 30-44 in deaths by thousands:
Infectuous and parasitic diseases: 672k
Maternal conditions: 233k
Noncommunicible disease: 653k
Injuries: 309k
Cause of death worldwide by HIV/AIDS alone is 385k for 15-29 and 426k for 30-44.
Also, abortions are listed under maternal deaths as 44k for 15-29 and 22k for 30-44.
The above data is only as reliable as the source, which is the World Bank.
Additionally, I provide this data in fulfillment of a request and am not interested in debating on this subject.
Edited by anglagard, : Deleted personal opinion.
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