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45,077 deaths, See Related Links, below.
The Little Deaths ended in 2000.
Heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory infections and chronic obstructive lung disease have remained the top major killers during the past decade. HIV deaths decreased slightly from 1.7 million (3.2%) deaths in 2000 to 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012. Diarrhoea is no longer among the 5 leading causes of death but is still among the top 10, killing 1.5 million people in 2012. Chronic diseases cause increasing numbers of deaths worldwide. Lung cancers (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.6 million (2.9%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.2 million (2.2%) deaths in 2000. Similarly, diabetes caused 1.5 million (2.7%) deaths in 2012, up from 1.0 million (2.0%) deaths in 2000.
64,944 Military deaths and 2000 civilian deaths.
In the years 2000-2007 tornadoes killed 24 people in Texas.
Australian Railroad Group was created in 2000.
Australian Doctors International was created in 2000.
The Angels - Australian band - ended in 2000.
Australian Rugby Shield was created in 2000.
The percentage of both total traffic fatalities and those that are alcohol-related have long been dropping and the proportion that are alcohol-related has been dropping even faster. Currently there is less that one traffic fatality for every 100 million miles traveled.
There were no tornado related deaths in Kansas in 2000.