which west african country has the highest mortality rate?
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Three countries in West Africa have a mortality rate above 100/1000 livebirths. These include, Nigeria (100/1000 livebirths), Mali (106/1000 livebirths), and Sierra Leone (111/1000 livebirths).
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The West Africa UN subregion includes the following countries:Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo .
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Today, countries in Africa have the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world. The country of Niger tops the list at 203.604 births per 100,000 teenage women.
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['Burkina Faso (77%)', 'Syria (50%)', 'Senegal (48%)', 'Haiti (40.60%)', 'Kenya (40%)', 'Djibouti (40%)', 'Marshall Islands (36%)', 'Namibia (34%)']
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Global life expectancy at birth in 2016 was 72.0 years (74.2 years for females and 69.8 years for males), ranging from 61.2 years in the WHO African Region to 77.5 years in the WHO European Region, giving a ratio of 1.3 between the two regions.
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According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest rate of intentional homicide in the world, with 6,239 intentional homicides, or 82.1 per 100,000 of population in 2010.
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['Seychelles ranks top with a quote of 0.797.', 'Mauritius with 0.79.', 'Algeria with 0.754.', 'Tunisia with 0.735.', 'Botswana 0.717.', 'Libya 0.706.', 'Gabon 0.702.']
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Brazil has the highest number of gun deaths in the world with a total of 43,200 out of the 250,000 worldwide – a gun death rate of 21.9 per 100,000 Brazilian citizens. The United States has the second-highest number of gun deaths with 37,200.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria accounted for 84 million (54%) of total cases. Of the 10 highest burden countries in Africa, Ghana and Nigeria reported the highest absolute increases in cases of malaria in 2018 compared with 2017.
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In addition, in sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is the leading killer and a large reason for the high transmission rates is because of the lack of education provided to youth. When infected, most children die within one year because of the lack of treatment.
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The countries with the highest suicide mortality rate worldwide include Lithuania, Russia, Guyana, and South Korea. Suicide rates of men are much higher than among women in many countries. Unsurprisingly, Lithuania, the country with the highest overall suicide rate, has the highest suicide rate for men.
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Western Africa (17) - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
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Like its neighbors in Saharan Africa, Mali has some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world.
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In absolute numbers, South Africa (7.1 million), followed by Nigeria (3.2 million), and India (2.1 million) had the highest HIV/AIDS number of cases by the end of 2016.
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There is more about this on the TB high burden countries page. The country with the highest estimated number of deaths is India with an estimated 410,000 deaths in HIV negative adults and 11,000 in HIV positive adults.
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The country where most people die because of an unhealthy diet. Uzbekistan has been named as the country which has the highest number of diet-related deaths in the world. A global study has found that the former Soviet republic records 892 per 100,000 people a year, due to poor diets.
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South Sudan is the most dangerous country in Africa and one of the most dangerous in the world, just falling above Afghanistan and Syria on the Global Safety Index. It is ranked as being more dangerous than typically risky countries such as Iraq, Somalia, and North Korea.