In 2015 around 55 million people died. [48] They were scheduled to be supplied by strip mines in the Powder River Basin.

[5], As of 2014, twenty-five states produced coal. As we saw, different sources (Alpha vs. Bing vs. Google) all draw on slightly different resources from different times. [40] Since then, mechanization has greatly improved productivity in coal mining, so that employment has declined at the same time coal production increased. The world population has grown rapidly, particularly over the past century: in 1900 there were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet; today there are 7.7 billion. 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA

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[39], By the end of 2016, the coal industry employed approximately 50,000 miners. [54][55][56], In 2006, there were 1493 coal-powered generating units at electrical utilities across the US, with total nominal capacity of 335.8 GW[57] In 2017, the states with the highest rates of gun-related deaths – counting murders, suicides and all other categories tracked by the CDC – were Alaska (24.5 per 100,000 people), Alabama (22.9), Montana (22.5), Louisiana (21.7), Missouri and Mississippi (both 21.5), and Arkansas (20.3). Over 2.4 million people die in US every year.

Three-quarters of all U.S. murders in 2017 – 14,542 out of 19,510 – involved a firearm. Sara Castromata and Cpl. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World. © 2020 The Future of Information Alliance, University of Maryland |. [78] Burning coal releases CO2 into the atmosphere which is contributing to global climate change. Production in 2017 was down 33% from the peak production of 1,162.7 million short tons (1,055 million metric tons) in 2006. The FBI found an increase in active shooter incidents between 2000 and 2013. It is then expected to slowly decline in the second-half of the century. Population projections show that the yearly number of births will remain at around 140 million per year over the coming decades. The energy value of mined US coal hit its all-time peak a decade earlier, in 1998, at 26.2 quadrillion BTU.

This is an amazingly handy trick to remember. When looking at data, be SURE you understand WHEN it was collected and WHAT it's measuring. [64]:44, The GAO also noted that the competitiveness of federal coal lease sales was limited by lack of multiple bids. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. While I work at Google, my blog and G+ posts reflects my own thoughts and not those of my employer. In 2000, US production of electricity from coal was 224.3 GW (1966 TWh per year).

Of the 107 tracts leased since 1990, 96 drew only a single bidder. 1. [20][21], The three regions producing the largest amount of coal are Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana, the Appalachian Basin and the Illinois Basin. As the number of births is expected to slowly fall and the number of deaths to rise the global population growth rate will continue to fall.

In 2013, 10 Marines died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and at least 13 Marines died in incidents in the United States. That was far higher than in countries such as Canada (2.1 per 100,000) and Australia (1.0), as well as European nations such as France (2.7), Germany (0.9) and Spain (0.6). [85][86][87] However, some environmentalists condemned this campaign as a "greenwashing" attempt to use environmentalist rhetoric to disguise what they call "the inherently environmentally unsustainable nature of coal-fired power generation".[88]. The energy value of US coal mined in 2016 was 14.6 quadrillion BTU, 44 percent lower than the peak. By January 2016, more than 25% of coal production was in bankruptcy in the United States[6] including the top two producers Peabody Energy[7][8] and Arch Coal. [49] As of February 2016, four proposals for coal terminals had been withdrawn, leaving two still applied for. It turns out that, This is an interesting insight: the simple question. In 2017, handguns were involved in the majority (64%) of the 10,982 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available, according to the FBI. Continue Reading.

What about that other question, causes of death in the US?

In 2017, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC. The world population therefore increased by 84 million in that year (that is an increase of 1.14%). What does this mean for population growth? U.S. coal exports, for which Europe is the largest customer, peaked in 2012. Accidents of all kinds are around 5.4% of the total (which means that car accidents are less than that). [67][68] The institute's mission statement notes that its goals include: “… to reduce dependence on coal and other non-renewable energy resources.”[69], The average heat content of mined US coal has declined over the years as higher-rank coal production (anthracite, and then bituminous coal) declined, and production of lower rank coal (Sub-bituminous and lignite) increased. The first chart shows the annual number of deaths over the same period. [4], Coal remains an important factor in the 25 states in which it is mined.

Advertisement. As you can see, heart disease and cancer are the two largest causes of death, accounting for 45% of all deaths in 2015. In 2017, six-in-ten gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (23,854), while 37% were murders (14,542), according to the CDC.

We chose to feature data from the year 2010 because there seems to be a sufficient amount of data for that year to make good comparisons. [89] The energy content of this coal exceeds that of oil and gas. [46] The largest individual country export markets were the Netherlands (12.9 million short tons), India (6.4 million short tons), Brazil (6.3 million short tons), and South Korea (6.1 million short tons). The royalty is 8 percent for underground mines and 12.5 percent for surface mines. And of course, another big factor in the causes of death is age at time of death. Nearly 45,000 of them die in road accidents. [42], In January 2016, the Obama administration announced a three-year moratorium on federal coal lease sales on public land, effective immediately, and leaving around 20 years-of coal production under way. Isn't a death a death? In 2013, seven marines were killed in a training accident at Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada when a mortar round exploded during an exercise.

Wyoming produced 375.8 million short tons representing 42% of U. S. coal production, West Virginia produced 95.6 million short tons or 11%, Kentucky was third with 61.4 or 7%, Illinois was fourth with 56.1 or 6% and Pennsylvania was fifth with 50.0 or 6%. In 2013, 10 Marines died in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and at least 13 Marines died in incidents in the United States. U.S. coal consumption decreased 14.8% from the 2018 level to 586.5 MMst. Also homicides, drunk driving and poisoning are killing over 17.000 people.