More Than 8 Million Chinese Die from Unnatural Causes Each Year

Chinese people wearing a white band around their heads attend the funeral of a relation. More than 8 million die of unnatural cases in China each year. (Cancan Chu/GettyImages)

According to an incomplete official data, more than 8 million Chinese die from unnatural causes each year.

Economic Professor Hu Xingdou of Beijing Institute of Technology said, “The number of unnatural deaths in China account for 70 percent of the world’s unnatural causes of deaths,” and the Chinese account for 20 percent of the world’s population.

As for the causes of the high unnatural deaths, Professor Hu believes it is from “the lack of a constitutional government” that has led to “the Chinese paying heavily.”

The following is part of the incomplete statistics collected:

• More than 2.1 million children die of respiratory tract infection due to renovation pollution each year. Among them, more than one million children younger than 5 years old die of indoor air pollution. (Source: Guan Ming Daily, “Killing 2.1 million children yearly and the murderer runs free”)

• More than 2 million children younger than 5 years old die from food poisoning. (Source: National Medical Education, “China’s food safety and food borne illness control policy")

• There are 2.2 million new cases of cancer patients, and 1.6 million die from cancer every year. (Source: Public Health, “Lung cancer leading Chinese cancer deaths in the rising cancer epidemiology”)

• 650,000 people die from air pollution in China each year. (Source: Jiangsu City Net, “China air pollution related death leads the world")

• 287,000 Chinese die from suicide annually. (Source: Shanghai Mental Consultation Net, “China’s first suicide prevention center director committed suicide”)

• 250,000 Chinese die from tuberculosis each year. (Source: China Health World Net, “250,000 people die from TB each year")

• 200,000 Chinese die from adverse drug reactions each year. (Source: China News Net, “200,000 people die from medicine; Deputy to the National People’s Congress called for compensation”)

• 130,000 people die from industrial accidents. (Source: The Central Party School researcher, Zhou Tianyong’s research, “China’s economic crisis”)

• Indoor pollution kills 111,000 people annually. (Source: Sina Net, “The annual death toll of indoor pollution: 111,000”)

• Ten million people killed by traffic accidents. (Source: Public Security Bureau of Haikou City Patrol Detachment, “10 million lives, China leads the world in traffic accident death toll”)

• More than 3,540,000 cases of infectious diseases were reported in 2008, and 120,000 people reported dead. (Source: Xinhua News, “The 2008 National Notifiable Diseases mortality report the declined death rate in 2008”)

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